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     > I'm looking at some adaptive spinning with futexes as a way to help
    > reduce the dependence on sched_yield() to implement userspace
    > spinlocks. Chris, I included you in the CC after reading your comments
    > regarding sched_yield() at kernel summit and I thought you might be
    > interested.

    I think you may have the wrong Chris. Chris Wright wasn't at the most
    recent kernel summit and I do have a vague recollection of Chris Mason
    mentioning that Oracle developers found that sched_yield() performed
    better than futexes + kernel scheduling.
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    Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> || For corporate legal information go to:
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