Re: [patch 4/4] powerpc 2.6.21-rt1: reduce scheduling latency bychanging tlb flush size

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon May 14 2007 - 02:48:40 EST


Tsutomu-san,

On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 15:38 +0900, Tsutomu OWA wrote:
> Oopps, Subject was wrong.... resending it. Sorry.
>
> To reduce scheduling latecy by changing tlb flush size to 1.
> Since tlb flush on Celleb is done by calling (an) expensive hypervisor call(s),
> it takes a long time to flush tlbs and causes scheduing latency.
>
> As I don't know how long it takes on other platforms, it would be better to
> enclose it within #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_CELLEB.

Yes, that might be appropriate. Can you add this and resend please ?

tglx


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