Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] sched: add yield_to function

Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-03T21:23:11Z

On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 19:40 +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 07:36:07PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 03:03:30PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > No, because they do receive service (they spend some time spinning
> > > before being interrupted), so the respective vruntimes will increase, at
> > > some point they'll pass B0 and it'll get scheduled.
> >
> > Is that sufficient to ensure that B0 receives its fair share (1/3 cpu in this
> > case)?
>
> Hmm perhaps yes, althought at cost of tons of context switches, which would be
> nice to minimize on?

Don't care, as long as the guys calling yield_to() pay for that time its
their problem.