Re: [patch 2.6.16-rc5-mm2] sched_cleanup-V17 - task throttling patch 1 of 2

Mike Galbraith
2006-03-04T07:02:13Z

On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 17:50 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Saturday 04 March 2006 17:50, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > Well Fudgecicles. Now you guys have gotten me aaaaall confused. Are
> > there cpus out there (in generic linux land) that have 16 bit integers
> > or not? 16 bit integers existing in a 32 bit cpu OS seems like an alien
> > concept to me, but I'm not a twisted cpu designer... I'll just go with
> > the flow ;-)
>
> All supported architectures on linux currently use 32bits for int. That should
> give you 2.1 seconds in nanoseconds. Sorry my legacy of remembering when ints
> were 8 bits coloured me.

Well that's a relief. I was getting all kinds of frazzled trying to
imagine the kernel not exploding on such a cpu.

-Mike