Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 2.6.16-rc5-mm2] sched_cleanup-V17 - task throttling patch 1 of 2 | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Date | Sat, 04 Mar 2006 08:04:00 +0100 |
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On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 17:50 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Saturday 04 March 2006 17:50, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > Well Fudgecicles. Now you guys have gotten me aaaaall confused. Are > > there cpus out there (in generic linux land) that have 16 bit integers > > or not? 16 bit integers existing in a 32 bit cpu OS seems like an alien > > concept to me, but I'm not a twisted cpu designer... I'll just go with > > the flow ;-) > > All supported architectures on linux currently use 32bits for int. That should > give you 2.1 seconds in nanoseconds. Sorry my legacy of remembering when ints > were 8 bits coloured me.
Well that's a relief. I was getting all kinds of frazzled trying to imagine the kernel not exploding on such a cpu.
-Mike
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