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Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 21:13:24 -0800
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Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
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> ChangeSet 1.897, 2003/01/05 19:45:48-08:00, neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au
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>         [PATCH] md: Make sure yielding thread actually yields cpu when waiting for turn at reconstruct.
> 

Be aware that yield() has changed a _lot_ since 2.4.   It can
now go away for hundreds of milliseconds.

I suggest you test this change while running `make -j6 bzImage'
on the same machine, make sure it doesn't do horrid things.