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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "lkml\, " <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>,
	Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <sdietrich@novell.com>,
	Peter Morreale <pmorreale@novell.com>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: Ideal Adaptive Spinning Conditions
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:35:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adaeij0gj3a.fsf@roland-alpha.cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BB3D90C.3030108@us.ibm.com> (Darren Hart's message of "Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:21:48 -0700")

 > 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.
-- 
Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> || For corporate legal information go to:
http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/index.html

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-31 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-31 23:21 Darren Hart
2010-03-31 23:35 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2010-04-01  2:03   ` Darren Hart
2010-04-01 17:02     ` Chris Wright
2010-03-31 23:38 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-04-01  0:17   ` Peter W. Morreale
2010-04-01  2:25     ` Darren Hart
2010-04-03 18:00       ` john cooper
2010-04-05 14:06         ` Darren Hart
2010-04-03 17:51     ` john cooper
2010-04-01  2:13   ` Darren Hart
2010-04-01  2:25     ` Steven Rostedt
2010-04-01  5:15       ` Darren Hart
2010-04-01 12:46         ` Gregory Haskins
2010-04-04  1:50       ` Rik van Riel
2010-04-04 15:06         ` Peter W. Morreale
2010-04-05 14:10         ` Darren Hart
2010-04-01  2:10 ` Darren Hart
2010-04-01 14:04   ` Chris Mason
2010-04-01 14:20 ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-01 15:54   ` Darren Hart
2010-04-01 16:10     ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-01 17:10       ` Darren Hart
2010-04-01 17:15         ` Avi Kivity

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