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To: Bernardo Innocenti <bernie@develer.com>
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Subject: Re: sched_yield() makes OpenLDAP slow
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: 19 Aug 2005 05:19:37 +0200
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Bernardo Innocenti <bernie@develer.com> writes:

It's really more a feature than a bug that it breaks so easily
because they should be really using futexes instead, which
have much better behaviour than any sched_yield ever could
(they will directly wake up another process waiting for the
lock and avoid the thundering herd for contended locks) 

-Andi