Messages in this thread | | | From | cd_smith@ou ... | Date | Mon, 26 Jul 1999 12:34:19 -0500 (CDT) | Subject | Re: low priority soft RT? |
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Benny Amorsen <amorsen@sscnet.com> wrote: > To test the effect, we would need a benchmark for which the kernel > currently scales badly due to lock contention, but which also does a > significant amount of user space processing.
I'm not sure how this would even theoretically be able to improve performance, not that I think about it. If there is a task in user space ready to do something, then it will be done and there's no point to kicking another task out of kernel space (by boosting its priority). If there is no task in user space and all the tasks are contending for the kernel, then the task holding the kernel lock will be scheduled anyway, and there is no point to trying to artificially favor the one task that has the lock.
I'm probably missing something, but I don't know what. Anyway, if it would be easy to extend Rik's patch to do that for all processes, it wouldn't be too much trouble to benchmark.
Chris Smith <cd_smith@ou.edu>
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