Rethinking some trade-offs

Posted Sep 6, 2018 7:26 UTC (Thu) by epa (subscriber, #39769)
Parent article: Strengthening user-space Spectre v2 protection

Now that context switching has become more expensive, can we expect to see the scheduler give slightly larger time slices to processes?

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Posted Sep 10, 2018 14:29 UTC (Mon) by rln (subscriber, #111710) [Link] (1 responses)

You can use nice(1) to get larger time slices.

Posted Sep 13, 2018 8:11 UTC (Thu) by sourcejedi (guest, #45153) [Link]

That's not how it works anymore.