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From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: root@chaos.analogic.com
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sched_yield() version 2.4.24
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:58:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4069A729.3030507@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0403301138260.6967@chaos>

Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> Anybody know why a task that does:
> 
> 		for(;;)
> 		   sched_yield();
> 
> Shows 100% CPU utiliization when there are other tasks that
> are actually getting the CPU? 

What do the other tasks show for cpu in top?

Maybe it's an artifact of the timer-based process sampling for cpu 
utilization, and it just happens to be running when the timer interrupt 
fires, so it keeps getting billed?

Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-30 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-30 16:47 sched_yield() version 2.4.24 Richard B. Johnson
2004-03-30 16:58 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2004-03-30 17:09   ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-03-30 17:30     ` Chris Friesen
2004-03-30 17:52       ` Ben Greear
2004-03-30 19:40         ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-03-30 20:29           ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-03-30 23:10             ` Diego Calleja García
2004-03-31 13:53             ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-04-01  0:05               ` Eric W. Biederman

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