From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com, jdike@addtoit.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [patch 02/12] uml: cpu_relax fix
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:02:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050323180205.1298eb85.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200503240250.38153.blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 23 March 2005 18:09, Bodo Stroesser wrote:
> > blaisorblade@yahoo.it wrote:
> > > Use rep_nop instead of barrier for cpu_relax, following $(SUBARCH)'s
> > > doing that (i.e. i386 and x86_64).
> >
> > IIRC, Jeff had the idea, to use sched_yield() for this (from a discussion
> > on #uml).
> Hmm, makes sense, but this is to benchmark well... I remember from early
> discussions on 2.6 scheduler that using sched_yield might decrease
> performance (IIRC starve the calling application).
yup, sched_yield() is pretty uniformly bad, and can result in heaps of
starvation if the machine is busy. Best to avoid it unless you really want
it, and have tested it thoroughly under many-tasks-busy workloads.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-24 2:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-22 16:21 [patch 02/12] uml: cpu_relax fix blaisorblade
2005-03-23 17:09 ` [uml-devel] " Bodo Stroesser
2005-03-24 1:50 ` Blaisorblade
2005-03-24 2:02 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-03-24 2:09 ` Nick Piggin
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