Re: [patch, 2.6.11-rc2] sched: RLIMIT_RT_CPU_RATIO feature

From: Con Kolivas
Date: Thu Feb 03 2005 - 15:32:05 EST


Paul Davis wrote:
* real inter-process handoff. i am thinking of something like
sched_yield(), but it would take a TID as the target
of the yield. this would avoid all the crap we have to go through to drive the graph of clients with FIFO's and
write(2) and poll(2). Futexes might be a usable
approximation in 2.6 (we are supporting 2.4, so we can't
use them all the time)

yield_to(tid) should not be too hard to implement. Ingo? What do you think?

Con

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