Re: Scheduler latency

Mike Jagdis (mike@roan.co.uk)
Wed, 21 Jan 1998 10:10:12 +0000 (GMT/BST)


On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:

> Hi, all. I've noticed that the scheduler in linux 2.1.79 seems a lot
> slower than the one in 2.0.25. Results of timing sched_yield(2):

2.0.25 might well be before sched_yield() was fixed to actually
cause an immediate reschedule. Also yielding a FIFO process only
has real work to do if there are other non-SCHED_OTHER processes
to continue...

Mike

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