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Date:      Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:11:35 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Linux moves to per CPU run queues
Message-ID:  <3C3DE767.8A1EBD8B@mindspring.com>
References:  <3C3CF60B.CE5F3E6C@mindspring.com> <p05101007b862dc9d2809@[128.113.24.47]>

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Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 6:01 PM -0800 1/9/02, Terry Lambert wrote:
> >As I have been suggesting for FreeBSD for some time, Linux has
> >just moved to per CPU run queues to reduce scheduler contention
> >and to improve affinity.
> >
> >http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0201.0/0810.html
> 
> Well, it's still in the testing stage, it's not like the switch
> has "gone production" yet.
> 
> It does look very interesting, and it will be good to keep track
> of how well it performs as more people beat on it.  There clearly
> seemed to be a lot of interest for this change in the above
> mailing list.  There seem to be several "doubters" in the list,
> so I'm sure they'll come up with several different ways to
> benchmark the results.
> 
> Always good to have a little competition in the world of ideas...

Or we could look at the benchmarks published about a similar
approach in Dynix, back in 1991, on a 32 CPU system, and just
decide that it's the right way to do things... 

-- Terry

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