Re: [PATCH] Minor scheduler fix to get rid of skipping in xmms

[Andrew Morton]

Con Kolivas <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Correction sorry: These changes were due to
>  > sched-CAN_MIGRATE_TASK-fix.patch and the test results say
>  > volano-results-2.6.0-test5-A0-*
> 
>  Further testing shows the patch: sched-balance-fix-2.6.0-test3-mm3-A0.patch to 
>  have no effect on volano results by itself. 

OK, thanks.

As I have just learnt that volanomark is dominated by sched_yield()-based
userspace locking I have suddenly lost all interest in it.  We don't want
to tune the kernel for braindead locking implementations.  Call me when it
has been converted to futexes ;)

Do we know what specjbb is doing internally?


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