Yeah, especially with such a little cache, context switching should be kept to the absolute minimum (for example, I think the kernel shouldn't pre preemptible).
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 11:33 +0300, ext Antti P Miettinen wrote: > Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > * Wherever possible, use multi-threading to push latency into the > > background. > > Umm.. 770 is uP, so heavy multithreading could just hurt performance > by introducing unnecessary context switching. I guess moving > synchronous I/O to a separate thread could be seen as latency > reduction via multithreading. But in general, if there is heavy > communication need between threads, use of a single thread and > non-blocking I/O would save context switches. > > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
