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From: Jesse Pollard <pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil>
To: hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: multi-queue scheduler update
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 11:49:52 -0600 (CST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200101211749.LAA20104@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> (raw)

Mark Hahn <hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>:
> 
> > >                            microseconds/yield
> > > # threads      2.2.16-22           2.4        2.4-multi-queue
> > > ------------   ---------         --------     ---------------
> > > 16               18.740            4.603         1.455
> > 
> > I remeber the O(1) scheduler from Davide Libenzi was beating the mainline O(N)
> 
> isn't the normal case (as in "The Right Case to optimize") 
> where there are close to zero runnable tasks?  what realistic/sane
> scenarios have very large numbers of spinning threads?  all server
> situations I can think of do not.  not volanomark -loopback, surely!

How about massively parallel compute jobs when synchronizing.

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             reply	other threads:[~2001-01-21 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-21 17:49 Jesse Pollard [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-19  0:51 [Lse-tech] Re: multi-queue scheduler update Andi Kleen
2001-01-19  1:14 ` John Clemens
2001-01-18 23:53 Mike Kravetz
2001-01-19  0:26 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-19  1:00   ` Mark Hahn
2001-01-19  1:08     ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-19  1:23       ` Mike Kravetz
2001-01-19  1:38         ` Davide Libenzi
2001-01-19  1:35     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-19  1:48       ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-19 23:35   ` Mike Kravetz
2001-01-19  0:43 ` Gerhard Mack

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