Re: chooseproc cpu affinity question

[Peter Kadau <peter.kadau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi !

>     Yes, the check for only the next one is intended.  Putting a iterative
>     loop in the middle of the process selection code's critical path is
>     not very condusive to performance.
Well, but with n CPUs your chance is 1/n you hit one.
And the expected length k of the loop is << runqcount.
How expensive is an IPI plus cache invalidation plus cache misses
compared to k times this loop ?
I don't know and I don't want to step on anyones toes.
I just think it's worth a thought.
Maybe trying min(n, runqcount) times or so would do the job...

Cheers
Peter

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