Hi David,
Tuesday, January 25, 2000 9:15 PM
David Lang <dlang@diginsite.com> wrote :
> Davide, your patch did a couple of things, one of which was to improve the
> cache hit rate by re-ordering things. would it be possible to seperate
> that portion of the patch out so it does not skew the results?
can You explain better ?
I don't understand what You mean about reordering.
> for those who are saying that this doesn't match any real-world
> situations, if this really does give a benifit aroung 4-5 processes in the
> runqueue then it may be a valid selection for a 4 or 8 way SMP box. I
> would not want to use on on a UP box or a 2 way SMP box, but if it becomes
> a compile time option for large servers it may be reasonable.
It is not necessary, since for low workloads the new patch use the old
scheduler.
Davide.
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