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On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 04:23:43 +0200 (CEST) Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Sure, bugs happen, but code that everybody runs the same generally doesn't > > break. So a CPU scheduler doesn't worry me all that much. CPU schedulers > > are "easy". > > A little more advance warning wouldn't have hurt though. > The new scheduler does _a_lot_ of heavy 64 bit calculations without any > attempt to scale that down a little... > One can blame me now for not having it brought up earlier, but discussions > with Ingo are not something I'm looking forward to. :( > I brought that up a couple of weeks ago, got handwaved at and gave up. It still isn't obvious to me that all that arith needs to be 64-bit on 32-bit machines, or even on 64-bit. 4e9 is a big number. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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