Re: [RFC -v2 PATCH 2/3] sched: add yield_to function

[Avi Kivity]

On 12/17/2010 09:15 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)?

What's the difference between that and forking off accomplices who 
run(exploit) directly?

Many threads dominating the scheduler has been solved by group 
scheduling.  We need to make sure directed yield doesn't violate that, 
but I don't see new problems.

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