Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261664AbTHTArm (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 20:47:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261666AbTHTArm (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 20:47:42 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:27522 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261664AbTHTArm (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 20:47:42 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:48:51 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: David Lang Cc: Eric St-Laurent , bill davidsen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: scheduler interactivity: timeslice calculation seem wrong Message-ID: <20030820004851.GD4306@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , David Lang , Eric St-Laurent , bill davidsen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1061338547.1000.30.camel@orbiter> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 574 Lines: 15 On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 05:32:04PM -0700, David Lang wrote: > while thinking about scaling based on CPU speed remember systems with > variable CPU clocks (or even just variable performance like the transmeta > CPU's) This and/or mixed cpu speeds could make load balancing interesting on SMP. I wonder who's tried. jejb? -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/