From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
To: <mgix@mgix.com>, <root@chaos.analogic.com>,
Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: <rml@tech9.net>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Question about sched_yield()
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 11:01:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020618180154.AAA21943@shell.webmaster.com@whenever> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AMEKICHCJFIFEDIBLGOBEEEHCBAA.mgix@mgix.com>
>All I want is: when I run a bunch of
>yielders and a actual working process, I want the
>working process to not be slown down (wall clock) in
>anyway. That's all. What top shows is of little interest
>(to me). What matters is how many real world seconds it takes
>for the actually working process to complete its task.
>And that should not be affected by the presence of running
>yielders. And, David, no one is arguing the fact that a yielder
>running all by itself should log 100% of the CPU.
Your assumptions are just plain wrong. The yielder is being nice, so it
should get preferential treatment, not worse treatment. All threads are
ready-to-run all the time. Yielding is not the same as blocking or lowering
your priority.
DS
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-18 18:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-15 22:15 Question about sched_yield() mgix
2002-06-16 14:43 ` [patch] " Ingo Molnar
2002-06-18 0:46 ` David Schwartz
2002-06-18 0:55 ` Robert Love
2002-06-18 1:51 ` mgix
2002-06-18 3:18 ` David Schwartz
2002-06-18 9:36 ` David Schwartz
2002-06-18 16:58 ` Chris Friesen
2002-06-18 17:12 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-06-18 17:19 ` mgix
2002-06-18 18:01 ` David Schwartz [this message]
2002-06-18 18:05 ` mgix
2002-06-18 19:11 ` David Schwartz
2002-06-18 16:58 ` Rob Landley
2002-06-18 19:25 ` Robert Love
2002-06-18 19:53 ` David Schwartz
2002-06-18 20:12 ` mgix
2002-06-18 20:42 ` David Schwartz
2002-06-18 20:47 ` mgix
2002-06-18 22:00 ` David Schwartz
2002-06-18 22:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-06-18 20:08 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-06-19 11:10 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-06-19 12:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-06-18 22:43 ` Olivier Galibert
2002-06-18 18:21 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-06-18 17:13 ` Robert Love
2002-06-18 18:00 ` David Schwartz
2002-06-18 22:45 ` Stevie O
2002-06-19 2:11 ` David Schwartz
2002-06-19 2:52 ` Stevie O
2002-06-20 20:31 ` David Schwartz
2002-06-18 17:23 ` Rik van Riel
2002-06-18 17:50 ` Chris Friesen
2002-06-18 1:41 ` mgix
2002-06-18 3:21 ` David Schwartz
2002-06-18 3:52 ` mgix
2002-06-18 4:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-06-19 11:24 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-06-19 11:47 ` scheduler timeslice distribution, threads, processes. [was: Re: Question about sched_yield()] Ingo Molnar
2002-06-18 18:56 ` Question about sched_yield() Rusty Russell
2002-06-18 19:12 ` David Schwartz
2002-06-18 20:19 ` Rusty Russell
2002-06-18 20:40 ` David Schwartz
2002-06-18 20:42 ` mgix
2002-06-18 22:03 ` David Schwartz
2002-06-18 22:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-06-19 11:29 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-06-19 14:03 ` Rusty Russell
2002-06-19 22:25 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-06-19 22:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-06-19 2:10 ` jw schultz
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