linux-kernel - Re: [RFC -v2 PATCH 2/3] sched: add yield

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Message-Id: <201012281118.11760.gene.heskett@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:18:11 -0500
From:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>
To:	Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@...e.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC -v2 PATCH 2/3] sched: add yield_to function

On Tuesday, December 28, 2010, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 01:08 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Tuesday, December 28, 2010, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>> >(either it's christmas, or nobody cares to try it.  ho ho hum:)
>> 
>> Mike, I'd be glad to try it, but the last kernel I was able to make the
>> nvidia drivers install on was 2.6.36.1-latencyfix, which had your
>> earier patches in it, and it is working _very_ well.
>
>It wouldn't do diddly spit by itself anyway, needs someone to stick
>yield_to(amigo) in interesting spots.  Might not do diddly spit even
>then :)
>
>	-Mike

Oh, in that case it will eventually filter down to me anyway after the rest 
of this list beats on it to see what falls out.  But I occasionally like to 
be part of the filtering media as long as I don't bleed too much. ;-)

Thanks Mike.

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