Re: [PATCH] sched: recover sched_yield task running time increase

["Alex,Shi" <alex.shi@intel.com>]

On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 14:13 +0800, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 04/06/2011 11:08 PM, Alex,Shi wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 16:04 +0800, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 06:33 +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
> 
> >> You do know that any app that relies on sched_yield behaviour is more
> >> than broken? Using sched_yield() for anything other than SCHED_FIFO
> >> tasks is well outside spec.
> >>
> >> Furthermore, apparently you used sysctl_sched_compat_yield, which was
> >> bound to disappear some time, since with the default settings the yield
> >> semantics didn't actually change.
> >
> > Yes, I used sched_compat_yield, otherwise volano will become extremely
> > slow in my single machine testing. We may reconsider our testing
> > setting.
> 
> With what JVM is this happening?

I used openjdk from fedora 10~13 and jrockit-R27.3.1-jre1.5.0_11, both
of them use sched_yield much. And I just did a quick try with
jrockit-R27.4.0-jre1.6.0_02.x86_64, it had same problem.

> 
> Surely not every JVM uses user space spinlocks and
> yield, when we have futexes available?

No, just 7 times futex called in testing, so I think the JVM did not use
it. 
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