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To: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
Cc: Chris Rankin <rankincj@yahoo.com>, Mark Rustad <mrustad@gmail.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-stable release plans?
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:47:38 EST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:47:38 EST, Jon Masters said:

> I must be weird or something, but I often think about this and the sheer 
> number of clock cycles executing at any one time around the world. Have 
> you ever stopped to think how many copies of schedule() (or whatever) 
> are currently running somewhere in the world? It's just nuts :-)

That's why we count single cycles in fast-path sections of code. :)

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