Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 15:22:25 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] sched: fix scheduling latencies for !PREEMPT kernels
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* Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> Could these ones go up a level? We break down scanning into 32 page
> chunks, so I don't think it needs to be checked every page.

not really - we can occasionally get into high latencies even with a
single page - if a single page is mapped by alot of processes.

	Ingo
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