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And most of that time is taken up by the Linux scheduler doing its work

JanKanis
– JanKanis

2020-06-12 06:29:14 +00:00
Commented Jun 12, 2020 at 6:29
1000 cycles in 1.2 mics implies a processor frequency of 800mhz? This doesn't seem correct in 2019...

nickt
– nickt

2024-07-24 10:15:34 +00:00
Commented Jul 24, 2024 at 10:15
Wrong, the OP is asking about process context switch, not thread context switch. And even thread context switch costs about 30-300 us, if you take into account indirect costs like cache invalidation etc.

Boris Burkov
– Boris Burkov

2025-03-03 06:59:45 +00:00
Commented Mar 3 at 6:59

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