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

[Avi Kivity]

On 12/20/2010 12:50 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> >
> >  >  >   >   Would a kick/hint option be useful?
> >  >  >
> >  >  >   Depends on what it does...
> >  >
> >  >  Let you decide whether you only want to drop a hint and leave it at
> >  >  that, or also attempt a preemption.
> >
> >  Who is "you" in this?  the scheduler?
>
> The caller.

I guess it works.  We can start out without preemption, if we see we 
spin to much, preempt.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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