Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 May 1999 18:10:49 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] new scheduler |
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On Mon, 10 May 1999, Phillip Ezolt wrote:
> This is coming from the linear search through the runqueue for an appropriate > goodness.
no, it is coming from the fact that there are many processes runnable. Dont shoot the messenger :) This is only the symptom of the problem.
> As Dean has already stated, apache uses flock/fcntl around accept to guarentee > that only one process is waiting in accept. > > Does flock/fcntl wake up all of the processes that are waiting on the lock? > > If so, has the thundering herd problem just been pushed into flock/fcntl > instead of accept?
yes.
-- mingo
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