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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Scheduler queue implementation ...
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 20:21:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011221202113.D415@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011220203630.A204@elf.ucw.cz> <E16HT2l-0000oP-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E16HT2l-0000oP-00@the-village.bc.nu>


Hi!

> > I'd guess that if cpu-bound software wants to use clone(CLONE_VM) to
> > gain some performance, it should better work "mostly" in different
> > memory areas on different cpus... But I could be wrong.
> 
> Lots of people use shared mm objects and threads for things like UI
> rather

But ... UI performance should not matter much. And that is *abuse* of
threads.

> than just for cpu hogging. If they have multiple cpu hogs doing that then
> they want punishing (or better yet sending a copy of a document on
> caches)

If I have a raytracer, and want to explore 8 cpus, how do I do that?
Separate scene into 8 pieces, make sure no r/w data are shared, and
clone(CLONE_VM). Are there other ways? [I do not know if people are
really doing it like that. *I* would do it that way. Is it bad?]

								Pavel
-- 
"I do not steal MS software. It is not worth it."
                                -- Pavel Kankovsky

  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-22 10:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-10  0:33 [RFC] Scheduler queue implementation Davide Libenzi
2001-12-10  0:49 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-10  0:57   ` Davide Libenzi
2001-12-10  1:16     ` Alan Cox
2001-12-10  2:36       ` Davide Libenzi
2001-12-20 19:36       ` Pavel Machek
2001-12-20 21:42         ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-21 17:01         ` Alan Cox
2001-12-21 19:21           ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2001-12-22 14:23             ` Alan Cox
2001-12-10  0:52 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-10  1:06   ` Davide Libenzi
2001-12-10  1:18     ` Alan Cox
2001-12-10  1:38       ` Davide Libenzi
2001-12-10  1:52         ` Alan Cox
2001-12-10  3:06           ` Davide Libenzi
2001-12-10 23:03         ` Mike Kravetz
2001-12-10 23:30           ` Davide Libenzi

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