Re: [HACKERS] Re: sched_yield()

> Secondly, the select() backoff patch I am working on starts out with a zero
> timeout and backs off incrementally by increasing the timeout value on
> subsequent iterations. The idea is to break up convoys and avoid big piles of
> processes pounding on a spinlock. This cannot be done with sched_yield().

Hard to beat the backoff argument.  I vote we only use select().

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