Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> writes:
> Probably the rate at which is called sys_sched_yield() is not so high to let
> the performance improvement to be measurable.
LinuxThreads mutexes call sched_yield() when a lock is locked, so when you
have a multithreaded program with some lock contention it'll be called a lot.
-Andi
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