linux-kernel - Re: sched_yield: delete sysctl_sched_compat

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Date:	Mon, 3 Dec 2007 22:48:03 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
Cc:	Chris Friesen <cfriesen@...tel.com>, davids@...master.com,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sched_yield: delete sysctl_sched_compat_yield


* Mark Lord <lkml@....ca> wrote:

> That's not the same thing at all. I think that David is suggesting 
> that the reinsertion logic should pretend that the task used up all of 
> the CPU time it was offered in the slot leading up to the 
> sched_yield() call.

we have tried this too, and this has problems too (artificial inflation 
of the vruntime metric and a domino effects on other portions of the 
scheduler). So this is a worse solution than what we have now. (and this 
has all been pointed out in past discussions in which David 
participated. I'll certainly reply to any genuinely new idea.)

	Ingo
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