From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
To: <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: <mgix@mgix.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Question about sched_yield()
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 20:18:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020618031823.AAA786@shell.webmaster.com@whenever> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1024361703.924.176.camel@sinai>
>> This neither says nor implies anything about CPU usage. It simply says
>>that the current thread will yield and be put at the end of the list.
>And you seem to have a misconception about sched_yield, too. If a
>machine has n tasks, half of which are doing CPU-intense work and the
>other half of which are just yielding... why on Earth would the yielding
>tasks get any noticeable amount of CPU use?
Because they're running infinite loops!
>Quite frankly, even if the supposed standard says nothing of this... I
>do not care: calling sched_yield in a loop should not show up as a CPU
>hog.
Calling any function that does not block in an endless loop *should* show up
as a CPU hog. Yielding is not blocking or even lowering your priority.
DS
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-18 3:18 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 [this message]
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
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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