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.
next prev parent 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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