Justifying sched_yield() in the RTS

Ben Gamari ben at smart-cactus.org
Fri May 1 16:22:47 UTC 2020


Travis Whitaker <pi.boy.travis at gmail.com> writes:

> Hello GHC devs,
>
> Through the course of reading some recent material posted by Linus
> Torvalds ^1 ^2, I remembered stumbling upon GHC Trac #3553 ^3 some
> years ago.
>
For what it's worth Simon Marlow and I discussed this a few weeks ago
and he agreed that it would be worth re-running the futex experiments.
I do suspect there is good money on the table here on larger/busier
machines. It would be great if someone could pick this up!

Cheers,

- Ben
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