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Subject: Re: [PATCH] preempt abstraction
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 17:46, David Howells wrote:

> ftp://infradead.org/pub/people/dwh/yield-252p10.diff.bz2
> 
> There's now a version of the patch with preempt/need_preempt changed to
> yield/need_yield, and with the unlikely() claused moved into need_yield(),
> should that be more to your preference.

Still not the name I would pick, but better :)

Oh, and need_yield is still marked unlikely in sched.c

Good patch,

	Robert Love

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