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SubjectRe: iperf: performance regression (was b44 driver problem?)
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On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 21:00 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >
> > Yes, the following patch makes iperf work better than ever.
> > But are other broken applications going to have same problem.
> > Sounds like the old "who runs first" fork() problems.
>
> Not really. The fork() "who runs first" problem is nowhere specified.
>
> usleep(0) is well defined:
>
> .... If the value of useconds is 0, then the call has no effect.
>
> So the call into the kernel has been wrong for quite a time.
>

Just for clarification: I'm not saying that we should break the (broken)
user space ABI. I'm going to work out a patch which prints out a warning
(limited number per boot) and emulating the old behavior by a call to
yield() along with an entry into (mis)feature-removal.txt.

tglx


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