From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Jan 10 11: 9:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4076F37B400 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:09:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0030.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.30] helo=mindspring.com) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16OkZh-0004Eb-00; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:09:18 -0800 Message-ID: <3C3DE6DB.5210233E@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:09:15 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Kargl Cc: smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux moves to per CPU run queues References: <3C3CF60B.CE5F3E6C@mindspring.com> <20020109203747.A86842@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Steve Kargl wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 06:01:47PM -0800, 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 > > Where are your patches? Why not commit Alfred's patches instead? I talked them over with him a number of times in the break room when we were both working at ClickArray, and they are very close (all you would need to do is remove the global run queue dependency he kept). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message