Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:22:23 +0100 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [Patch 2/3] fast VMA recycling |
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Andi Kleen wrote: >> see voluntary preempt. > > Only when its time slice is used up
or if some other thread gets a higher dynamic prio > but then it would sleep a bit later > in user space.
... but that is without the semaphore held! (and that is the entire point of this patch, move the sleep moments to outside the lock holding area as much as possible, to reduce lock hold times)
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