Re: web page on O(1) scheduler

From: David Mosberger (davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com)
Date: Wed May 21 2003 - 10:18:13 EST


>>>>> On 21 May 2003 11:01:33 +0200, Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com> said:

  Arjan> On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 08:49, David Mosberger wrote:
>> I think the web pages should be most relevant to the HPTC (high
>> performance technical computing) community, since this is the
>> community that is most likely affected by some of the performance
>> oddities of the O(1) scheduler. Certainly anyone using OpenMP on
>> Intel platforms (x86 and ia64) may want to take a look.

  Arjan> oh you mean the OpenMP broken behavior of calling
  Arjan> sched_yield() in a tight loop to implement spinlocks ?

Please have the courtesy of reading the web page before jumping to
conclusions.

        --david
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