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    SubjectRe: [RFC -v2 PATCH 2/3] sched: add yield_to function
    On 12/17/2010 02:15 AM, Mike Galbraith wrote:

    > BTW, with this vruntime donation thingy, what prevents a task from
    > forking off accomplices who do nothing but wait for a wakeup and
    > yield_to(exploit)?
    >
    > Even swapping vruntimes in the same cfs_rq is dangerous as hell, because
    > one party is going backward.

    I just realized the answer to this question.

    We only give cpu time to tasks that are runnable, but not
    currently running. That ensures one task cannot block others
    from running by having time yielded to it constantly.


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