Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Interesting analysis of linux kernel threading by IBM | From | Ian Soboroff <> | Date | 21 Jan 2000 09:47:38 -0500 |
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Phillip Ezolt <ezolt@perf.zko.dec.com> writes:
> > Hondreds of tasks is just not a typical (perhaps even realistic) > > workload. > > Yes it is. > [...] > Or a highly threaded application.
didn't Larry McVoy make a point a while back (which relates well to the IBM paper), that if your application depends on huge numbers of threads, you're always going to keep bumping up against the scheduler? a lot of people throw lots of threads at a problem and it can really be bad design.
in the vast majority of cases, i suspect it's easier and probably better to redesign the app than redesign the scheduler. that said, the improvements already done are quite good and needed.
ian
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