Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.16-rc5-mm2]  sched_cleanup-V17 - task throttling
	patch 1 of 2
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
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       kenneth.w.chen@intel.com, akpm@osdl.org
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Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 08:04:00 +0100
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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

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