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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peter@programming.kicks-ass.net>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Zhang,
	Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: Make yield_task_fair more efficient
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:04:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080221090430.GA20055@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47BD3B56.3090404@linux.vnet.ibm.com>


* Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> If you insist that sched_yield() is bad, I might agree, but how does 
> my patch make things worse. [...]

it puts new instructions into the hotpath.

> [...] In my benchmarks, it has helped the sched_yield case, why is 
> that bad? [...]

I had the same cache for the rightmost task in earlier CFS (it's a 
really obvious thing) but removed it. It wasnt a bad idea, but it hurt 
the fastpath hence i removed it. Algorithms and implementations are a 
constant balancing act.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-21  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-21  5:33 Make yield_task_fair more efficient Balbir Singh
2008-02-21  6:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-21  6:51   ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-21  7:07     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-21  7:39       ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-21  8:43         ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-02-21  8:50           ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-21  9:04             ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-02-21  9:31               ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-21  9:42                 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-21  9:44                   ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-21  9:43                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-02-21  9:42                   ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-21 10:01                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-02-21 10:07                       ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-21 11:12                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-02-21 11:27                           ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-21 20:38                           ` Jens Axboe
2008-02-21 20:55                             ` Jens Axboe
2008-02-22  3:27                               ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-21 10:17                 ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-21 12:02                 ` Mike Galbraith
2008-02-21 12:06                   ` Mike Galbraith
2008-02-21 13:29                   ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-21 14:38     ` Jörn Engel

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