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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Unix trampoline?
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Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 19:18:37 +0100
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> ... that's also when i
> discovered just how appalling Linux's scheduler actually is, and has
> been years.  good source for a good sneer, anyhow.

it is truly frightening, particularily when you read comments like:

 *  2002-01-04  New ultra-scalable O(1) scheduler by Ingo Molnar:
 *              hybrid priority-list and round-robin design with
 *              an array-switch method of distributing timeslices
 *              and per-CPU runqueues.  Cleanups and useful suggestions
 *              by Davide Libenzi, preemptible kernel bits by Robert Love.

err, yes i've been delving through this stuff.

if you want a near death experience, read:

    /usr/include/linux/list.h