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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [OKS] O(1) scheduler in 2.4
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On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 08:56:01AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> are these hard numbers? I havent seen much hard data yet from real-life
> servers using the O(1) scheduler. There was lots of feedback from
> desktop-class systems that behave better, but servers used to be pretty
> good with the previous scheduler as well.

I seem to recall some testing having been done demonstrating such
differences. I'll ask around when I get back from vacation, though I'll
confess it's far afield from my usual interests.


Cheers,
Bill
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