Re: Likelihood of rt_tasks

[Ingo Molnar]

* Con Kolivas <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> While rt tasks are normally unlikely, what happens in the case when
> you are scheduling one or many running rt_tasks and the majority of
> your scheduling is rt? Would it be such a good idea in this setting
> that it is always hitting the slow path of branching all the time?

it's really not that big of an issue to hit the 'slow' path. And if it
is that common then the BTB of the CPU ought to cover it just fine.

	Ingo
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