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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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