Re: Network slowdown due to CFS

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Oct 01 2007 - 12:25:38 EST



* Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@xxxxx> wrote:

> BTW, it looks like risky to criticise sched_yield too much: some
> people can misinterpret such discussions and stop using this at all,
> even where it's right.

Really, i have never seen a _single_ mainstream app where the use of
sched_yield() was the right choice.

Fortunately, the sched_yield() API is already one of the most rarely
used scheduler functionalities, so it does not really matter. [ In my
experience a Linux scheduler is stabilizing pretty well when the
discussion shifts to yield behavior, because that shows that everything
else is pretty much fine ;-) ]

But, because you assert it that it's risky to "criticise sched_yield()
too much", you sure must know at least one real example where it's right
to use it (and cite the line and code where it's used, with
specificity)?

Ingo
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