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From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC -v3 PATCH 2/3] sched: add yield_to function
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 02:51:20 +0100
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On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 16:29 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
> 
> Add a yield_to function to the scheduler code, allowing us to
> give enough of our timeslice to another thread to allow it to
> run and release whatever resource we need it to release.
> 
> We may want to use this to provide a sys_yield_to system call
> one day.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
> 
> --- 
> Mike, want to change the above into a Signed-off-by: ? :)
> This code seems to work well.

Done.

	-Mike