Re: [patch] SMP scheduler improvements

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Sat, 21 Aug 1999 11:49:22 +0200 (CEST)


On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Rik van Riel wrote:

>> + if (target_tsk && p->avg_slice > cacheflush_time)
>> + goto send_now;
>
>I really don't think this "inversion" of the test makes any sense.

Why do you take it as an inversion? If the task has a long avgslice then
we can move it to another CPU and the time to reload the cache will be
hided in the long run of the task.

Andrea

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