Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Per-Processor Data Paget | Date | Fri, 10 Dec 1999 00:07:05 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > It is normal for our threads to share address space. Trying to use > > a sledgehammer to fix a minor kink simply makes larger dents. > > By 'our threads' do you mean kernel threads or application threads.
Kernel threads don't matter in 2.3.x as the lazy tlb flushing means they will never cause a problem.
> And what percentage of the time does a thread in the same address space > get scheduled on a single processor.
On non SMP machines quite regularly. The scheduler even has a bias for this case. Almost all threaded apps will follow this property on Linux.
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