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From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent immediate process rescheduling
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:03:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1253351016.7282.3.camel@marge.simson.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1253326605.7133.55.camel@marge.simson.net>

On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 04:16 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:

> Sounds like Mark's case really needs a gentle_yield() that moves the
> task behind next, and slightly beyond if they are too close, but which
> also ignores the request entirely if the gap is too large.

Did that, it sucks. (not surprising really, yield _always_ sucked;)

	-Mike


  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-19  9:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-18 19:49 [PATCH] Prevent immediate process rescheduling Mark Langsdorf
2009-09-18 19:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-09-18 20:00   ` Langsdorf, Mark
2009-09-18 20:03   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-19  2:16     ` Mike Galbraith
2009-09-19  9:03       ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2009-09-19  8:31     ` Avi Kivity
2009-09-20 21:03       ` Langsdorf, Mark
2009-09-20 21:55         ` Avi Kivity

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