Re: sched fixes 2.3.36

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 8 Jan 2000 23:28:47 +0000 (GMT)

> tasks. IMHO with the reliable active_mm information we have in 2.3.x (so
> being sure to do the right thing) using a +5 should not hurt (maybe we
> could remove 4 points from the per-processor penality?).

Search the kernel archives for late 2.1.x about jumpy SMP behaviour. People
traced problems back to the processor favouritism.

I also saw no difference on performance when testing multi-cpu load stuff
with different values. I think Ingo also did some stuff with this

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