Re: 2.6.18-stable release plans?
From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Fri Feb 02 2007 - 03:19:02 EST
On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:47:38 EST, Jon Masters said:
> I must be weird or something, but I often think about this and the sheer
> number of clock cycles executing at any one time around the world. Have
> you ever stopped to think how many copies of schedule() (or whatever)
> are currently running somewhere in the world? It's just nuts :-)
That's why we count single cycles in fast-path sections of code. :)
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