Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Fri Jul 13 2007 - 00:47:19 EST


On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 04:23 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,

Hi,

> The new scheduler does _a_lot_ of heavy 64 bit calculations without any
> attempt to scale that down a little...

See prio_to_weight[], prio_to_wmult[] and sysctl_sched_stat_granularity.
Perhaps more can be done, but "without any attempt..." isn't accurate.

-Mike

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