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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 23:03:20 +0100 (CET)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Davide Libenzi wrote:

> What about decreasing counter by 1 for each sched_yield() call ?

we did that in earlier kernels - it's not really the right thing to do, as
calling yield() does not mean we are willing to give up a *timeslice*. It
only means that right now we are not able to proceed.

	Ingo


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