Re: sched_yield proposals/rationale

[Mark Lord]

Buytaert_Steven@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Bill Davidsen
> >
> > And having gotten same, are you going to code up what appears to be a
> > solution, based on this feedback?
>
> The feedback was helpful in verifying whether there are any arguments against my approach. The real proof is in the pudding.
>
> I'm running a kernel with these changes, as we speak. Overall system throughput is about up 20%. With 'system throughput' I mean measured performance of a rather large (experimental) system. The patch isn't even 24h old... Also the application latency has improved.

Cool.  You *do know* that there is a brand new CPU scheduler
scheduled to replace the current one for the 2.6.22 Kernel, right?

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