From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>,
davids@webmaster.com, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sched_yield: delete sysctl_sched_compat_yield
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 23:05:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071203220559.GA11906@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47547BB6.3040402@rtr.ca>
* Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote:
> Ack. And what of the suggestion to try to ensure that a yielding task
> simply not end up as the very next one chosen to run? Maybe by
> swapping it with another (adjacent?) task in the tree if it comes out
> on top again?
we did that too for quite some time in CFS - it was found to be "not
agressive enough" by some folks and "too agressive" by others. Then when
people started bickering over this we added these two simple corner
cases - switchable via a flag. (minimum agression and maximum agression)
> (I really don't know the proper terminology to use here, but hopefully
> Ingo can translate that).
the terminology you used is perfectly fine.
> Thanks Ingo -- I *really* like this scheduler!
heh, thanks :) For which workload does it make the biggest difference
for you? (and compared to what other scheduler you used before? 2.6.22?)
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-03 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-27 9:33 sched_yield: delete sysctl_sched_compat_yield Zhang, Yanmin
2007-11-27 11:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-27 22:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-11-30 2:46 ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-30 2:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-11-30 3:02 ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-30 3:15 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-11-30 3:29 ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-30 4:32 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-11-30 10:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-03 4:27 ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-03 8:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-03 9:17 ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-03 9:35 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-12-03 9:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-03 10:15 ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-03 10:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-03 11:02 ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-03 11:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-03 17:04 ` David Schwartz
2007-12-03 17:37 ` Chris Friesen
2007-12-03 19:12 ` David Schwartz
2007-12-03 19:56 ` Chris Friesen
2007-12-03 21:39 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-03 21:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-03 21:57 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-03 22:05 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-12-03 22:18 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-03 22:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-04 0:18 ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-04 0:30 ` David Schwartz
2007-12-04 2:09 ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-04 1:02 ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-03 9:41 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-12-03 10:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-03 9:29 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-12-03 10:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-04 6:40 ` Zhang, Yanmin
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