Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-41,: Re: [PATCH] scheduler cleanup

# Re: [PATCH] scheduler cleanup

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Wed, 13 Oct 1999 11:01:47 +0200 (CEST)

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On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Artur Skawina wrote:

>and mainly reduce lock contention), i don't see the problem...

You are avoiding _necessary_ yields. The other process may be blocked
waiting for a reschedule from you. You can't assume that the other tasks
have rescheduled the idle cpus. That may not happen to improve
performances in some case.

Andrea

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