David King wrote:
Well, round-robin startup would at least be better than always using
one process to start all processes. That would go some of the way
^^^^^^^
I did of course mean to say processor here.
David
towards improving asymmetric heating. (Says me, whose knowledge of
kernel scheduling could be written on the face of a chip and still
leave room for footnotes...)
In the spirit of small amounts of scheduling knowledge, are load
averages kept on individual processors? Or can they be determined fast
enough to not increase the process creation time significantly (or at
least to be offset by the speed gained), in order to put a process or
thread on the least encumbered processor? top(1) lists the assigned CPU,
so it seems like it would be simple enough to determine on-the-fly, but
if it's not kept somewhere, I wouldn't want to iterate every process to
get its assigned CPU every time I create a new one.
Is there a "scheduling-for-dummies" feasibly (even if not easily) read
by non-kernel hackers? :)
David
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