On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 13:50 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > My preference would be the second: fix the scheduler so it doesn't rely > on regular polling. However, as long as the UP case runs with no timer > interrupts when idle, many people will be happy (eg. most embedded).
alternatively; if a CPU is idle a long time we could do a software level hotunplug on it (after setting it to the lowest possible frequency and power state), and have some sort of thing that keeps track of "spare but unplugged" cpus that can plug cpus back in on demand. That also be nice for all the virtual environments where this could interact with the hypervisor etc ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. Get your fingers limbered up and give it your best shot. 4 great events, 4 opportunities to win big! Highest score wins.NEC IT Guy Games. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display. Visit http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
