Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!

[Ingo Molnar]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:

> > > > Excuse me, 857,000,000 instructions executed and 460,000,000
> > > > context switches a second -- on a PII system at 350 Mhz. [...]
> > 
> > > That's more than one context switch per clock. I do not think so.
> > > Really go and check those numbers.
> > 
> > yep, you cannot have 460 million context switches on that system,
> > unless you have some Clintonesque definition for 'context switch' ;-)
> 
> The numbers don't lie. [...]

sure ;) I can do infinite context switches! You dont believe? See:

        #define schedule() do { } while (0)

[there is a small restriction, should only be used in single-task
systems.]

        Ingo

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