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From: Mark Zealey <kernel@itsolve.co.uk>
To: Val Henson <vhenson@ods.com>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 09:22:33 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re: What is the optimum time for task switching?
Could you post this to linux-kernel please. I've got a problem with my
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On Tue, 2 May 2000, Mark Zealey wrote:
> On Mon, 1 May 2000, Val Henson wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm under the impression that Mark is talking about context-switch time
> > and not about time between switching tasks. Mark, care to clarify?
>
> I was after the time between tasks, which is related to the time between
> being interrupted by the PIT.
>
> >
> > -VAL
> >
> > On 30 Apr 2000, Johan Kullstam wrote:
> >
> > > Mark Zealey <kernel@itsolve.co.uk> writes:
> > >
> > > > I am interested in what the optimum time on an i386+ is for task
> > > > switching. I would imagine that it would be quite long, as it must take
> > > > lots of cycles to save all the reg's and load the new ones.
> > >
> > > from a cycle efficiency standpoint, optimum would be to stay
> > > infinitely long with each task and only switch when the task was
> > > complete or waiting for input. however, user interaction demands
> > > switching once in a while to preserve the illusion of multi-tasking.
> > >
> > > --
> > > J o h a n K u l l s t a m
> > > [kullstam@ne.mediaone.net]
> > > Don't Fear the Penguin!
> > >
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> Cheers,
>
> Mark Zealey
> mark@itsolve.co.uk
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Mark Zealey
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