Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263078AbVBCU14 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 15:27:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262365AbVBCUZE (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 15:25:04 -0500 Received: from mail21.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.133.158]:10178 "EHLO mail21.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263813AbVBCUWv (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 15:22:51 -0500 Message-ID: <4202876F.3010302@kolivas.org> Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 07:19:59 +1100 From: Con Kolivas User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Davis Cc: "Bill Huey (hui)" , Ingo Molnar , "Jack O'Quin" , Nick Piggin , linux , rlrevell@joe-job.com, CK Kernel , utz , Andrew Morton , alexn@dsv.su.se, Rui Nuno Capela , Chris Wright , Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: [patch, 2.6.11-rc2] sched: RLIMIT_RT_CPU_RATIO feature References: <200502031420.j13EKwFx005545@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <200502031420.j13EKwFx005545@localhost.localdomain> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig57F44CD8DAD584BFBD42626B" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1454 Lines: 38 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig57F44CD8DAD584BFBD42626B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 --------------enig57F44CD8DAD584BFBD42626B Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCAodvZUg7+tp6mRURAiE+AJwM9sygfYG2myleIAt4x99ldnormgCfe3qW uabXqJ539bxiDUn/rFi40UE= =Cfgr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig57F44CD8DAD584BFBD42626B-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/