linux-kernel - RE: sched_yield proposals/rationale

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Message-Id: <1176411899.28263.704.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:04:58 +0200
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Buytaert_Steven@....com
Cc:	andi@...stfloor.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: RE: sched_yield proposals/rationale

On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 10:15 -0400, Buytaert_Steven@....com wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > > Agreed, but $ find . -name "*.[ch]" | xargs grep -E "yield[ ]*\(" | wc
> > over
> > > the 2.6.16 kernel yields 105 hits, note including comments... An
> > interesting spot is e.g. fs/buffer.c free_more_memory()
> > 
> > A lot of those are probably broken in some way agreed.
> 
> OK, so there are 2 options: 1) fix 100 spots or 2) ... ;-)

100, simply because at least 95 of them are broken.

	tglx


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