Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: yield API | From | Eric St-Laurent <> | Date | Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:57:51 -0400 |
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On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 08:46 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> APIs that are not in any real, meaningful use, despite a decade of > presence are not really interesting to me personally. (especially in > this case where we know exactly _why_ the API is used so rarely.) Sure > we'll continue to support it in the best possible way, with the usual > kernel maintainance policy: without hurting other, more commonly used > APIs. That was the principle we followed in previous schedulers too. And > if anyone has a patch to make sched_yield() better than it is today, i'm > of course interested in it.
Do you still have intentions to add a directed yield API? I remember seeing it in the earlier CFS patches.
- Eric
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