Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Apr 2003 18:13:24 -0400 | From | Chuck Ebbert <> | Subject | Re: Quick question about hyper-threading |
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Rovert Love wrote:
> No, the current scheduler (HT or stock 2.5) does not do > this. > > Your theories are correct. It would be interesting to try > this and see. > > It is nontrivial to do the ->mm checks in the scheduler though - > certainly they cannot be done easily (if at all) in constant-time > (i.e., it won't be O(1)).
Is the scheduler even the right place to do that?
I was thinking maybe the task_struct could use a cpus_desired field -- then other parts of the system could give the scheduler hints about which CPU to schedule a task on.
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