On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Duncan Sands wrote:
> Maybe it is worth auditing the kernel source files using yield()?
most definitely.
> Here is the list of files using yield(), excluding non-i386 arch
> specific files:
>
[...]
> mm/oom_kill.c
this one i think is OK.
> kernel/sched.c (in migration_call)
this is okay as well.
> kernel/softirq.c
these are okay too - both are nonperformance bits.
> arch/i386/mm/fault.c
okay as well, it's a last-ditch effort to not kill init, so yielding is
the right thing to do here.
the others i think should be fixed. (but there might be exceptions.)
Ingo
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