Re: [RFC -v3 PATCH 2/3] sched: add yield_to function

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Tue Jan 04 2011 - 07:03:48 EST


On 01/04/2011 08:14 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
Also, If pthread_cond_signal() call sys_yield_to imlicitly, we can
avoid almost Nehalem (and other P2P cache arch) lock unfairness
problem. (probaby creating pthread_condattr_setautoyield_np or similar
knob is good one)

Often, the thread calling pthread_cond_signal() wants to continue executing, not yield.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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