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SubjectRe: [PATCH] 2.4-ac task->cpu abstraction and optimization
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Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> writes:

> > > also took a look at your patch -- looks good, you should submit it to
> > > Marcelo... it cannot hurt for 2.4.
> >
> > I might do that, unless Alan plans on pushing the -ac sched.c stuff to
> > Marcelo, in which case my patch would just confuse things. Alan?
>
> I'd like to see it in 2.4 base. Its really Marcelo's call.

One imho major problem with the new scheduler is that its new
sched_yield breaks programs like OpenOffice, who rely on the old
sched_yield behaviour. With new scheduler and 2.5 yield OpenOffice
can be completely starved just by a kernel compile because sched_yield
kills all its time slices.

I don't think a stable release should break programs in such a way.

-Andi
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