Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.5 Changes doc update. | From | Robert Love <> | Date | 11 Dec 2002 14:46:51 -0500 |
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On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 12:25, Dave Jones wrote:
> Process scheduler improvements. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > - Another much talked about feature. Ingo Molnar reworked the process > scheduler to use an O(1) algorithm. In operation, you should notice > no changes with low loads, and increased scalability with large numbers > of processes, especially on large SMP systems. > - Robert Love wrote various utilities for changing behaviour of the > scheduler (binding processes to CPUs etc). You can find these tools at > http://tech9.net/rml/schedutils > - Regressions to mingo@redhat.com and rml@tech9.net
Two notes here:
- The behavior of sched_yield() changed a lot. A task that uses this system call should now expect to sleep for possibly a very long time. Tasks that do not really desire to give up the processor for a while should probably not make heavy use of this function. Unfortunately, some GUI programs (like Open Office) do make excessive use of this call and under load their performance is poor. It seems this new 2.5 behavior is optimal but some user-space applications may need fixing.
- The above applies to use of yield() in the kernel, too.
- 2.5 adds system calls for manipulating a task's processor affinity: sched_getaffinity() and sched_setaffinity()
Robert Love
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