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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Cc: mpm@selenic.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ck@vds.kolivas.org
Subject: Re: RSDL-mm 0.28
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:39:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070310193954.58389077.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200703111459.28806.kernel@kolivas.org>

> On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:59:28 +1100 Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> wrote:
> > Bottom line: we've had a _lot_ of problems with the new yield() semantics.
> > We effectively broke back-compatibility by changing its behaviour a lot,
> > and we can't really turn around and blame application developers for that.
> 
> So... I would take it that's a yes for a recommendation with respect to 
> implementing a new yield() ? A new scheduler is as good a time as any to do 
> it.

I guess so.  We'd, err, need to gather Ingo's input ;)

Perhaps a suitable way of doing this would be to characterise then emulate
the 2.4 behaviour.  As long as it turns out to be vaguely sensible.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-11  3:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-11  1:35 RSDL-mm 0.28 Matt Mackall
2007-03-11  2:28 ` Con Kolivas
2007-03-11  3:16   ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-11  3:43     ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-11  3:59     ` Con Kolivas
2007-03-11  3:39       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-03-11  3:44         ` Con Kolivas
2007-03-11  4:01   ` Matt Mackall
2007-03-11  4:03     ` Matt Mackall
2007-03-11  6:19       ` Con Kolivas
2007-03-12  5:38         ` RSDL for 2.6.21-rc3- 0.29 Gene Heskett
2007-03-12  5:48           ` Con Kolivas
2007-03-12  6:37             ` Gene Heskett
2007-03-12 10:04               ` Gene Heskett
2007-03-12 12:51                 ` Douglas McNaught
2007-03-12 18:28                   ` Gene Heskett
2007-03-12 18:46                     ` Douglas McNaught
2007-03-12 19:10                       ` Gene Heskett
2007-03-12 19:14                         ` Lee Revell
2007-03-12 19:43                         ` Douglas McNaught
2007-03-12 19:54                           ` Patrick Mau
2007-03-12 20:24                             ` Gene Heskett
2007-03-13  1:32                             ` Stracing Amanda (was: RSDL for 2.6.21-rc3- 0.29) Douglas McNaught
2007-03-13  2:39                               ` Gene Heskett
2007-03-13  3:01                                 ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-03-13  4:04                                   ` Gene Heskett
2007-03-13  4:45                                     ` Willy Tarreau
2007-03-13  5:48                                       ` Gene Heskett
2007-03-12 13:22   ` RSDL-mm 0.28 David Schwartz
2007-03-12 14:54     ` Ray Lee
2007-03-13  7:22     ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-11  7:32 ` Willy Tarreau

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