Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:41:51 -0400 (EDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: RFC: THE OFFLINE SCHEDULER |
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On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Why waste a whole cpu for something that could be done by part of one?
Because of latency and performance requirements
> You're bound to have interaction between the core os and these > partitions you want, non of it different from how threads in the kernel > would interact, other than that you're going to re-invent everything > already present in the kernel.
The kernel interactions can be done while running on another (not isolated) cpu.
> You don't, you make things more complex by introducing duplicate > functionality.
The functionality does not exist. This is about new features.
> If you think the kernel is too fat and does superfluous things for your > needs, help trim it.
Mind boogling nonsense. Please stop fantasizing and trolling.
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