Re: SCHED_YIELD again

yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu
Mon, 11 Oct 1999 22:38:05 -0600


On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 02:03:53AM +0200, Borislav Deianov wrote:
> > flawed. POSIX.4 states that RT processes will always run in preference
> > to SCHED_OTHER. A RT process which does sched_yield() *should not*
> > give up it's CPU to a SCHED_OTHER process.
>
> Agreed. With my patch a RT process will only yield to another RT
> process with the same or higher priority.

Where does it say that? When I read the spec, I got the
impression that it was permitted for
the priorities of different scheduling classes to overlap.

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