Re: sched_yield() options

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Em Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 03:34:07PM -0700, david@xxxxxxx escreveu:
> I've seen a lot of discussion about how sched_yield is abused by  
> applications. I'm working with a developer on one application that looks  
> like it's falling into this same trap (mutexes between threads and using  
> sched_yield (or more precisely pthread_yield()) to let other threads get  
> the lock)
>
> however I've been having a hard time tracking down the appropriate  
> discussions to forward on to the developer (both for why what he's doing  
> is bad, and for what he should be doing instead)
>
> could someone point out appropriate mailing list threads, or other  
> documentation for this?

http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Using_sched_yield_Improperly

- Arnaldo
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