* Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you insist that sched_yield() is bad, I might agree, but how does
> my patch make things worse. [...]
it puts new instructions into the hotpath.
> [...] In my benchmarks, it has helped the sched_yield case, why is
> that bad? [...]
I had the same cache for the rightmost task in earlier CFS (it's a
really obvious thing) but removed it. It wasnt a bad idea, but it hurt
the fastpath hence i removed it. Algorithms and implementations are a
constant balancing act.
Ingo
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