* Chris Friesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > >But, because you assert it that it's risky to "criticise sched_yield() > >too much", you sure must know at least one real example where it's right > >to use it (and cite the line and code where it's used, with > >specificity)? > > It's fine to criticise sched_yield(). I agree that new apps should > generally be written to use proper completion mechanisms or to wait > for specific events.
yes. > However, there are closed-source and/or frozen-source apps where it's > not practical to rewrite or rebuild the app. Does it make sense to > break the behaviour of all of these? See the background and answers to that in: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/19/357 http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/19/328 there's plenty of recourse possible to all possible kinds of apps. Tune the sysctl flag in one direction or another, depending on which behavior the app is expecting. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
