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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:54:20 -0400
From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
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To: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH]O14int
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Martin Schlemmer wrote:

> 
> I did not say the 'make -j10s' starved.  I am saying that mouse
> is laggish, as well as window/desktop switching.
> 
> Also, I am not saying Con should fix it - I am asking if we really
> want one scheduler that should try to do the right thing for SMP
> *and* UP.


Putting aside the load balancer, isn't the SMP case little more than 
multiple UP schedulers running in parallel?

I think that was supposed to be one of the great things about the O(1) 
scheduler:  It unlocked the CPUs from each other so there would be far 
fewer spinlocks.


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