From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com>, Bill Huey <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org>, <freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: New Linux threading model Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0209201711250.1857-100000@imladris.surriel.com> In-Reply-To: <3D8B62DB.C27B7E07@mindspring.com>
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On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > I think the "the Linux scheduler is O(1), so we don't have to > care" argument is invalid; O(1) means that for N entries, there > need to be N elements traversed 1 time. No, it means that for N schedulable entities, the system still only needs to traverse 1, Ingo's scheduler really is O(1). It's a pretty neat scheduler and it's probably possible to port this thing to FreeBSD in a few steps of manageable size. regards, Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ Spamtraps of the month: september@surriel.com trac@trac.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the messagehome | help
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