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From: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
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Subject: Re: Use of yield() in the kernel
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 18:20:24 +0200
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Hi Duncan,

> The semantics of sched_yield() changed in the 2.5 kernel.
> In the 2.4 series it meant "sleep a little".
> The new 2.5 semantics are correct (move to the end of the
> run queue) but can mean "sleep a lot" under load.
>
> This already bit ext3 transaction batching, c.f. Andrew Morton's
>
>> [PATCH] remove the sched_yield from the ext3 fsync path
where did you read this ^^? :)

ciao, Marc
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