On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Sasha Pachev wrote:
> Upon further investigation and testing, it turned out that the kernel was not
> at fault - the problem was high mutex contention, which caused frequent
> context switches, and the idle CPU was apparently from the scheduler waiting
> for the original CPU to become available too often.
>
> On a side note, it would be nice if a process could communicate
> to the kernel that it would rather run on the first available
> CPU than wait for the perfect one to become available.
The kernel already does this.
Rik
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