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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Scheduler ( was: Just a second ) ...
To: forveill@cfht.hawaii.edu (Thierry Forveille)
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 14:31:32 +0000 (GMT)
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> I have a feeling that this discussion got sidetracked: cpu cycles burnt 
> in the scheduler indeed is non-issue, but big tasks being needlessly moved
> around on SMPs is worth tackling.]

Its not a non issue - 40% of an 8 way box is a lot of lost CPU. Fixing the
CPU bounce around problem also matters a lot - Ingo's speedups seen just by 
improving that on the current scheduler show its worth the work


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