Messages in this thread | | | From | kuznet@ms2 ... | Subject | Re: SCO: "thread creation is about a thousand times faster than on native Linux" | Date | Wed, 23 Aug 2000 23:23:04 +0400 (MSK DST) |
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Hello!
> The SGI scheduler patch fixes that iirc, just unfortunately it didn't get > merged :-/
Indeed. Is it the same patch where pointer to cpu local data is help in current?
> Looks like it is an degenerated case of the fast path concept > (or is it less costly than manipulating a few counters/pointers during > the scheduler operations -- I don't know) > There is other stuff like this, e.g. the loadavg computation in the timer tick.
It is not a fast path, it is suboptimal for all the cases, but single process existing in the system. Seems, it is plain dusty place not cleaned seriously since about linux-0.01. 8)
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