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Alan Cox writes:
> [somebody]

>> I don't quite agree with you that it doesn't matter. A lot of tests
>> (volanomark, other silly things) show that the current scheduler jumps
>> processes from CPU to CPU on SMP boxes far too easily

Be careful that your viewer doesn't disturb the system.
Please don't even consider using "top" for this.

> #4 On x86 we are horribly cache pessimal. All the task structs are
> on the same cache colour. Multiple tasks waiting for the same event
> put their variables (like the wait queue) on the same cache line.

If cache problems are bad enough, maybe this pays for itself:

/* old */
current = stack_ptr & ~0x1fff;

/* new */
hash = (stack_ptr>>8)^(stack_ptr>>12)^(stack_ptr>>16)^(stack_ptr>>20);
current = (stack_ptr & ~0x1fff) | (hash & 0x1e0);

> The classic example is two steady cpu loads and an occasionally waking
> client (like an editor)

Like "top"!
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