Re: [patch] sched: add locking when update the task_group's cfs_rq[] array.

From: Chris Friesen
Date: Wed Nov 19 2008 - 16:51:14 EST


Peter Zijlstra wrote:

Will it scale, half-way, I'd say. It races a little, but should
converge. The biggest issue is that we're running with 10 bit fixed
point math, and on large cpu machines you get into granularity problems.

Is there any way to get higher resolution math on 64-bit machines? (I'm assuming that most larger SMP boxes will be 64-bit capable.)

Chris
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