i think Andi was talking about the vast majority of the systems out
there. For example, check out the arch demography of current Fedora
installs (according to the Smolt opt-in UUID based user metrics):
http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/
i686: 74743
x86_64: 18599
i386: 1208
ppc: 527
ppc64: 396
sparc64: 14
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Total: 95488
even pure i386 (kernels, not systems) is a only 1.2% of all installs. By
the time the CFS kernel gets into a distro (a few months at minimum,
typically a year) this percentage will go down further. And embedded
doesnt really care about task-statistics corner cases [ (it likely
doesnt have 'top' installed - likely doesnt even have /proc mounted or
even built in ;-) ].
of course CFS should not do _worse_ stats than what we had before, and
should not break or massively misbehave. Also, anything sane we can do
for low-resolution arches we should do (and we already do quite a bit -
the while wmult stuff is to avoid expensive divisions) - and i regularly
booted CFS with a low-resolution clock to make sure it works. So i'm not
trying to duck anything, we've just got to keep our design priorities
right :-)
Ingo
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