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    SubjectRe: [Linux-ia64] Re: web page on O(1) scheduler
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    On Mer, 2003-05-21 at 20:18, Duraid Madina wrote:
    > "A process can relinquish the processor voluntarily without blocking by
    > calling sched_yield. The process will then be moved to the end of the
    > queue for its static priority and a new process gets to run."
    >
    > How you get from there to "I'm the least important thing in the system"
    > is, once again, beyond me. And even if that were a reasonable


    Assuming nobody is niced the two say the same thing. Note "for its
    _static_ priority" not for its dynamic priority. So sched_yield puts you
    at the back of a pile of cpu hogs cos thats what the spec says it does

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