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SubjectRe: must-fix list for 2.6.0
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On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 19:47, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
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> Excuse me, but WTF do they spin on the sched_yield() in the first place?
> _That_ sounds like utterly broken...

I agree it is broken, but it was considered a method of implementing
user-space locking for a long time..

The problem is in LinuxThreads mostly, I guess, according to Andrew.

But the big offender we hear about ten times a day is Open Office, which
calls sched_yield() after a lot of GUI operations, seemingly in the name
of interactivity. It is busted and Red Hat shipped a yield-less Open
Office in RH9 which works fine.

Robert Love

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