[coyotos-dev] sleep capability

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 00:53 +0100, Valerio Bellizzomi wrote:
> >So now the question is: do we *also* want a scheduling mechanism that is
> >more opportunistic, using whatever slice is available wherever it
> >appears?
> 
> Probably Yes, so that we can take advantage of slice transfer.

No no. Slice transfer is one of the reasons that you *don't* want a
multi-cpu schedule.

Part of the issue here is cache residency. Migrating the state of a
process from one CPU to another is *very* expensive.

shap