Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 May 1999 18:17:33 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: Overscheduling DOES happen with high web server load. |
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On Fri, 7 May 1999, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Schedule_timeout() can be replaced by a simple resorting of > the heap. Basically we only need to remove processes from > the heap if they do blocking I/O or wait for a signal > (otherwise they would clutter up the heap).
schedule_timeout() is not really expected to have high performance. Its functionality was moved out of the main scheduler partly for this reason. Btw., the timer code (which is used by schedule_timeout() intrnally) has a sort of heap structure already.
-- mingo
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