From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261614AbTKXXB7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2003 18:01:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261606AbTKXXAL (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2003 18:00:11 -0500 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:60677 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261602AbTKXW7x (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2003 17:59:53 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: gatekeeper.tmr.com!davidsen From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: [RFC] generalise scheduling classes Date: 24 Nov 2003 22:48:57 GMT Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY Message-ID: References: <20031117021511.GA5682@averell> <1010800000.1069532100@[10.10.2.4]> <3FC01817.3090705@cyberone.com.au> <3FC0A0C2.90800@cyberone.com.au> X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1069714137 32341 192.168.12.62 (24 Nov 2003 22:48:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com Originator: davidsen@gatekeeper.tmr.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <3FC0A0C2.90800@cyberone.com.au>, Nick Piggin wrote: | We still don't have an HT aware scheduler, which is unfortunate because | weird stuff like that looks like it will only become more common in future. The idea is hardly new, in the late 60's GE (still a mainframe vendor at that time) was looking at two execution units on a single memory path. They decided it would have problems with memory bandwidth, what else is new? -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.