Re: [PATCH] 2.4-ac task->cpu abstraction and optimization

From: Alan Cox (alan@redhat.com)
Date: Thu Sep 12 2002 - 16:58:44 EST


> One imho major problem with the new scheduler is that its new
> sched_yield breaks programs like OpenOffice, who rely on the old
> sched_yield behaviour. With new scheduler and 2.5 yield OpenOffice
> can be completely starved just by a kernel compile because sched_yield
> kills all its time slices.

Ingo already fixed that
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