From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:54:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:54:03 -0400 Received: from nat-pool-rdu.redhat.com ([66.187.233.200]:31709 "EHLO devserv.devel.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:54:03 -0400 From: Alan Cox Message-Id: <200209122158.g8CLwim12943@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4-ac task->cpu abstraction and optimization To: ak@suse.de (Andi Kleen) Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:58:44 -0400 (EDT) Cc: alan@redhat.com (Alan Cox), rml@tech9.net (Robert Love), mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: from "Andi Kleen" at Sep 12, 2002 10:55:20 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > One imho major problem with the new scheduler is that its new > sched_yield breaks programs like OpenOffice, who rely on the old > sched_yield behaviour. With new scheduler and 2.5 yield OpenOffice > can be completely starved just by a kernel compile because sched_yield > kills all its time slices. Ingo already fixed that