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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	torvalds@transmeta.com, arjanv@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] preempt abstraction
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 19:59:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020108195920.A14642@caldera.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10940.1010511619@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <1010516250.3229.21.camel@phantasy>
In-Reply-To: <1010516250.3229.21.camel@phantasy>; from rml@tech9.net on Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 01:57:28PM -0500

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 01:57:28PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> Why not use the more commonly named conditional_schedule instead of
> preempt() ?  In addition to being more in-use (low-latency, lock-break,
> and Andrea's aa patch all use it) I think it better conveys its meaning,
> which is a schedule() but only conditionally.

I think the choice is very subjective, but I prefer preempt().
It's nicely short to type (!) and similar in spirit to Ingo's yield()..

	Christoph


  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-08 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-08 17:40 [PATCH] preempt abstraction David Howells
2002-01-08 18:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-01-08 18:57 ` Robert Love
2002-01-08 18:59   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2002-01-08 20:52     ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-08 21:25       ` Roger Larsson
2002-01-08 22:12         ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-08 22:35           ` David Howells
2002-01-08 22:46             ` David Howells
2002-01-08 23:05               ` Robert Love
2002-01-08 21:30       ` Robert Love

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