linux-kernel - Re: RFC: THE OFFLINE SCHEDULER

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Message-Id: <1251322663.3882.48.camel@raz>
Date:	Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:37:43 +0300
From:	raz ben yehuda <raziebe@...il.com>
To:	Chris Friesen <cfriesen@...tel.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>, mingo@...e.hu,
	peterz@...radead.org, maximlevitsky@...il.com, efault@....de,
	riel@...hat.com, wiseman@...s.biu.ac.il,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: THE OFFLINE SCHEDULER


On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 15:15 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> On 08/26/2009 02:50 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > What problem?
> > 
> > All I've seen is "I want 100% access to a CPU".  That's not a problem
> > statement - it's an implementation.
> > 
> > What is the problem statement?
> 
> I can only speak for myself...
> 
> In our case the problem statement was that we had an inherently
> single-threaded emulator app that we wanted to push as hard as
> absolutely possible.
> 
> We gave it as close to a whole cpu as we could using cpu and irq
> affinity and we used message queues in shared memory to allow another
> cpu to handle I/O.  In our case we still had kernel threads running on
> the app cpu, but if we'd had a straightforward way to avoid them we
> would have used it.
> 
> Chris
Chris. I offer myself to help anyone wishes to apply OFFSCHED.
  



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