Re: sched_yield: delete sysctl_sched_compat_yield

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> > as far as desktop apps such as firefox goes, the exact opposite is 
> > true. We had two choices basically: either a "more agressive" yield 
> > than before or a "less agressive" yield. Desktop apps were reported 
> > to hurt from a "more agressive" yield (firefox for example gets some 
> > pretty bad delays),
>
> Why not to change source codes of firefox? [...]

because we care a heck of a lot more about a widely used open-source 
package's default "user experience" than we care about closed-source 
volanomark scores...

do you realize the absurdity of that suggestion: in essence we'd punish 
firefox _because it is open-source and can be changed_. So basically 
firefox would get a more preferential treatment if it was closed-source 
and could not be changed? That's totally backwards.

> If the sched_compat_yield=0, the sys_sched_yield almost does nothing 
> but returns, so firefox could just do not call sched_yield. I assume 
> 'sched_compat_yield=0' ~ no_call_to_sched_yield.
> 
> It's easier to delete calls to sched_yield in applications than to 
> tune calls to sched_yield.

We are not at all worried about punishing silly benchmark behavior - and 
volanomark's call to Thread.yield (if that's indeed what is happening - 
could you try to trace it to make sure?) is outright silly. There are 
other chatroom benchmarks such as hackbench.c and hackbench_pth.c that i 
test frequently, and they are not affected by any yield details. (and 
even then it's still taken with a grain of salt - remember dbench)

	Ingo