Re: [RFC][PATCH] Scalable Scheduling

[Victor Yodaiken <yodaiken@fsmlabs.com>]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 03:40:00PM -0400, Hubertus Franke wrote:
> 
> We did not modify the UP code at all. There will be NO effects (positive
> nor negative) what so ever.

Cool. So the obvious next question is 
	How does it compare on a dual to the current Linux scheduler?

Obviously:
	Performance sucks on two processors but scales well

would not be a good thing.


> 
> Hubertus Franke
> Enterprise Linux Group (Mgr),  Linux Technology Center (Member Scalability)
> , OS-PIC (Chair)
> email: frankeh@us.ibm.com
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> Victor Yodaiken <yodaiken@fsmlabs.com> on 08/08/2001 03:27:55 PM
> 
> To:   Mike Kravetz <mkravetz@sequent.com>
> cc:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, Hubertus
>       Franke/Watson/IBM@IBMUS, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject:  Re: [RFC][PATCH] Scalable Scheduling
> 
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> 
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:28:00AM -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> > One challenge will be maintaining the same level of performance
> > for UP as in the current code.  The current code has #ifdefs to
> 
> How does the "current code" compare to the current Linux UP code?
> 
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