Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:46:18 -0800 | From | Mike Kravetz <> | Subject | Re: Scheduler Cleanup |
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On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 03:44:42PM -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote: > Anyway me too have verified an increased latency with sched_yield() test > and next days I'm going to try the real one with the cycle counter > sampler. > I've a suspect, but i've to see the disassembly of schedule() before > talking :)
One thing to note is that possible acquisition of the runqueue lock was reintroduced in sys_sched_yield(). From looking at the code, it seems the purpose was to ?add fairness? in the case of multiple yielders. Is that correct Ingo?
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