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To: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Question about sched_yield()
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> >If willingly and knowingly relinquinshing a CPU does not make it possible
> >for other processes to use what would otherwise have been your very own 
> >slice
> >of processing time then what could it be used for, I really wonder.
> 
> 	It does! That's what it's for.

Good, and now that we agree:

Now back to the original point: sched_yield does not
do the above on Linux as of today, which was the point
of my original posting, and which is the reason Ingo
posted a scheduler patch.

	- Mgix


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