Re: [HACKERS] Re: sched_yield()
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: dg@illustra.com (David Gould)
Cc: scrappy@hub.org, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-03-22T04:03:41Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> 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(). -- Bruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 + If your life is a hard drive, | (610) 353-9879(w) + Christ can be your backup. | (610) 853-3000(h)