Messages in this thread | | | From | Changli Gao <> | Date | Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:52:01 +0800 | Subject | Re: [RFC] sched: implement the exclusive wait queue as a LIFO queue |
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On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Xiaotian Feng <xtfeng@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com> wrote: >> implement the exclusive wait queue as a LIFO queue >> >> If the exclusive wait queue is also a LIFO queue as the normal wait queue, the >> process who goes to sleep recently, will be woke up first. As its memory is >> more likely in cache, we will get better performance. And when there are many >> processes waiting on a exclusive wait queue, some of them may not be woke up, >> if the others can handle the workload, and it will reduce the load of >> the scheduler. >> > > Starve some processes for performance? >
Starve? Oh, No. If we don't need these processes, and we can do better without them, why we wake them up?
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