Re: a better reschedule_idle() and goodness()

[MOLNAR Ingo]

On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Robert M. Hyatt wrote:

> In kernels back in the early 2.1.10x days, this would show significant
> numbers of "bounces" with only 4 compute-bound threads running, plus the
> usual hardclock stuff and network things adding to the confusion.

the p->need_resched, smp_message_pass() and reschedule_idle() changes
enabling finer-grained SMP scheduling went in around 2.1.110 or so. So it
might be different since then. But in any case, it's definitely easier to
fine-tune it now. 

-- mingo

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