From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To: david@lang.hm
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sched_yield() options
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:53:18 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081020225318.GA10352@ghostprotocols.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0810201531010.21749@asgard.lang.hm>
Em Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 03:34:07PM -0700, david@lang.hm escreveu:
> I've seen a lot of discussion about how sched_yield is abused by
> applications. I'm working with a developer on one application that looks
> like it's falling into this same trap (mutexes between threads and using
> sched_yield (or more precisely pthread_yield()) to let other threads get
> the lock)
>
> however I've been having a hard time tracking down the appropriate
> discussions to forward on to the developer (both for why what he's doing
> is bad, and for what he should be doing instead)
>
> could someone point out appropriate mailing list threads, or other
> documentation for this?
http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Using_sched_yield_Improperly
- Arnaldo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-20 22:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-20 22:34 sched_yield() options david
2008-10-20 22:53 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2008-10-20 23:08 ` david
2008-10-20 23:53 ` David M. Lloyd
2008-10-21 0:44 ` david
2008-10-21 0:57 ` David M. Lloyd
2008-10-21 1:04 ` David Schwartz
2008-10-21 13:42 ` Michal Hocko
2008-10-20 23:02 ` Chris Friesen
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