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SubjectRe: a quest for a better scheduler

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> The problem has always been - alternative scheduler, crappier
> performance for 2 tasks running (which is most boxes). [...]

it's not only the 2-task case, but also less flexibility or lost
semantics.

> Indeed. I'd love to see you beat tux entirely in userspace. It proves
> the rest of the API for the kernel is right

well, until the cost of entry into the kernel is eliminated, this is not
possible - unless there are performance bugs in TUX :-)

but yes, getting a userspace solution that gets 'close enough' in eg.
SPECweb99 benchmarks (which is complex enough to be trusted as a generic
performance metric) would be a nice thing to have. There are existing
SIGIO based, multithreaded solutions (eg. phttpd), with varying success.

Ingo

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