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Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 23:54:26 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Scheduler ( was: Just a second ) ...
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On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> You have to prioritize. Scheduling overhead is way down the list.

That's not what the profiling on my UP machine indicates,
let alone on SMP machines.

Try readprofile some day, chances are schedule() is pretty
near the top of the list.

regards,

Rik
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