Re: [patch] [sched] yield speedup, 2.5.3-pre5

[Martin Josefsson]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> > I'm not an spinlock expert but shouldn't you use spin_unlock_irq()
> > when it was locked with spin_lock_irq() ?
> 
> normally yes, but in this case it's an optimization: schedule() will
> disable interrupts within a few cycles, so there is no point in enabling
> irqs for a short amount of time.

Thanks for the explanation.

/Martin

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