Thread (74 messages) 74 messages, 16 authors, 2009-09-01

Re: RFC: THE OFFLINE SCHEDULER

From: raz ben yehuda <hidden>
Date: 2009-08-26 21:37:51
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On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 15:15 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
On 08/26/2009 02:50 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
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What problem?

All I've seen is "I want 100% access to a CPU".  That's not a problem
statement - it's an implementation.

What is the problem statement?
I can only speak for myself...

In our case the problem statement was that we had an inherently
single-threaded emulator app that we wanted to push as hard as
absolutely possible.

We gave it as close to a whole cpu as we could using cpu and irq
affinity and we used message queues in shared memory to allow another
cpu to handle I/O.  In our case we still had kernel threads running on
the app cpu, but if we'd had a straightforward way to avoid them we
would have used it.

Chris
Chris. I offer myself to help anyone wishes to apply OFFSCHED.
  


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