| Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 10/22] sched: add a syscall to wait for the next instance | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:21:57 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 08:35 +0200, Raistlin wrote: > > Introduce sched_wait_interval() syscall (and scheduling class > interface call). In general, this aims at providing each scheduling > class with a mean of making one of its own task sleep for some time > according to some specific rule of the scheduling class itself. > Did we have an actual use case for this? I seem to remember that the last time we seemed to thing job wakeups are due to external events, in which case we don't need this.
I think we should try without this patch first and only consider this once we merged the base functionality and have a solid use-case for this.
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