Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Apr 1997 22:46:42 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: your mail |
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On Tue, 01 Apr 1997 16:39:48 -0500, "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com> said:
> It sounds like the rule is now: > o You can use schedule() when you just want to possibly give time > to other processes, modulo scheduling policy now in effect. After > all, schedule() didn't always yield in the past; it only yielded if > there was any reason to do so.
Indeed. To force a yield, you would need to do a current->counter = 0; before you schedule(), otherwise you might well be picked for immediate reschedule. schedule() just forces the scheduler algorithm to run, it doesn't force a context switch as a yield() should do.
Cheers, Stephen.
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