Re: [PATCH] Faster scheduler and separate RT run queue

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Tue, 29 Sep 1998 21:41:35 -0700 (PDT)


On 30 Sep 1998, Michael O'Reilly wrote:
>
> And what does it do to the common case? It looks like it makes it
> slower... This patch is adding a fair whack of extras..

It shouldn't need to make it slower: it should actually speed up one of
the most critical paths in the scheduler, which is the "goodness()"
function. By having a separate RT queue, the goodness() function no longer
needs to care.

So I don't think it's that obvious.

Linus

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