linux-kernel - Re: sched_yield: delete sysctl_sched_compat

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Date:	Mon, 3 Dec 2007 23:33:53 +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:

>> heh, thanks :) For which workload does it make the biggest difference 
>> for you? (and compared to what other scheduler you used before? 
>> 2.6.22?)
> ..
>
> Heh.. I'm just a very unsophisticated desktop user, and I like it when 
> Thunderbird and Firefox are unaffected by the "make -j3" kernel builds 
> that are often running in another window.  BIG difference there.
>
> And on the cool side, the Swarm game (swarm.swf) is a great example of 
> something that used to get jerky really fast whenever anything else 
> was running, and now it really doesn't seem to be affected by 
> anything. (I don't really play computer games, but this one is has a 
> very retro feel..).

nice! Do you feel any difference between 2.6.23 and 2.6.24-rc for these 
workloads? (if you've tried .24 already)

	Ingo
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