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Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 01:56:14 +0100 (CET)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] improving O(1)-J9 in heavily threaded situations
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On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Jussi Laako wrote:

> Ok, now I made comparison test with exactly same kernel except other
> one with -K2 patch. O1-K2 behaves significantly worse than old
> scheduler. I think this behaviour was introduced somewhere around
> beginning of -J series. I can't make kernel with old scheduler loose
> datablocks, but with O1 it looses large percentage of the blocks.

what does 'loose datablocks' mean? What application loses datablocks?

	Ingo

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