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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent immediate process rescheduling
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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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