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SubjectRe: #define HZ 1024 -- negative effects?
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Nigel Gamble wrote:

> > What about SCHED_YIELD and allocating during vm stress times?

snip

> A well-written GUI should not be using SCHED_YIELD. If it is

I was refering to the gui (or other tasks) allocating memory during
vm stress periods, and running into the yield in __alloc_pages()..
not a voluntary yield.

-Mike

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