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Linux Gets O(1) SMP Patch As Late Christmas Gift

Posted by timothy on from the punishing-those-greedy-processes dept.

bodin writes: "Now that new-year's parties are over things are getting boring again. For those who want to see and perhaps even try something more complex, Ingo Molnar is announcing this patch that is a pretty radical rewrite of the Linux scheduler. This is big stuff!"

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  1. I hope Linus listens (and I'm not making a fool.. by dalutong · · Score: 3, Insightful

    of myself)

    I don't know if in 2.ed kernels Linus still likes the "small patch" idea. but this is pretty amazing. I am no kernel coder, but some of these tests showed 600% percent improvement and (seemed to me to be) impressive scaling. All the kernel gurus out there, what is the chance that this will make it into the kernel? (2.5)

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  2. Re:I hope Linus listens (and I'm not making a fool by pthisis · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Davide Libenzi's been shooting some holes in the architecture of this patch--he's also written a highly scalable multiqueue scheduler. He and Mingo are currently hammering out some ideas, almost certainly something will go into 2.5 but this may not be it.

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