Re: [RFC -v7 PATCH 4/7] Add yield_to(task, preempt) functionality.

[Rik van Riel]

On 01/31/2011 06:49 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 17:21 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:

> > +       if (yielded)
> > +               yield();
> > +
> > +       return yielded;
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(yield_to);
>
> yield() will again acquire rq->lock.. not not simply have
> ->yield_to_task() do everything required and make that an unconditional
> schedule()?

I wanted to reduce code duplication, since this code path
should not be taken all that frequently.  But hey, you're
the maintainer, so I'll implement it your way :)

The patches should be on the way later today :)

--
All rights reversed
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/