[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Multi-processor scheduler now available for testing

[Eric Blossom]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 07:55:29AM -0700, Eric Blossom wrote:
> I've checked in an SMP-aware scheduler and would love folks to start
> testing with it.  I'm seeing good scaling performance when running it
> on multiprocessor/multicore systems.  On a dual-quad-core Xeon, there
> are cases where I get 7.9 times improvement in performance over the
> earlier scheduler.  I'll post some graphs later.

In my excitement (ooh, ooh, it's working!) I forgot to mention that 
^C handling is not fully sorted out in the feature branch.  If you try
^C and nothing happens, switch to ^\.  I'll let you know when there's
a proper fix.

Eric