Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: sys_sched_yield fast path | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 10 Mar 2001 17:59:33 +0100 |
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Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> writes:
> Probably the rate at which is called sys_sched_yield() is not so high to let > the performance improvement to be measurable.
LinuxThreads mutexes call sched_yield() when a lock is locked, so when you have a multithreaded program with some lock contention it'll be called a lot.
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