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From: Sean Hunter <sean@dev.sportingbet.com>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4.19-preX: What we really need: -AA patches finally in the tree
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 10:36:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020301103600.D7765@dev.sportingbet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0203010009510.2801-100000@imladris.surriel.com> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0202281942420.939-100000@blue1.dev.mcafeelabs.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0202281942420.939-100000@blue1.dev.mcafeelabs.com>; from davidel@xmailserver.org on Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 07:43:57PM -0800

Excuse my stupidity, but would a patch that just adds Davide's macro and
changes all instances of 

current->policy |= SCHED_YIELD;
schedule();

to yield() be acceptable?  Is there more involved than that, because I am
perfectly happy to create and submit such a patch.

...or am I just being dumb?

Sean

On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 07:43:57PM -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> > Not at all. The yield() function would just be a define to
> > the code which no longer works with the new scheduler, ie:
> >
> > #define yield()				\
> > 	current->policy |= SCHED_YIELD;	\
> > 	schedule();
> 
> or better :
> 
> #define yield() \
> 	do { \
> 		current->policy |= SCHED_YIELD; \
> 		schedule(); \
> 	} while (0)
> 
> 
> 
> - Davide
> 
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-01 10:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-26  0:35 2.4.19-preX: What we really need: -AA patches finally in the tree Dieter Nützel
2002-02-26  1:02 ` Ken Brownfield
2002-02-26  1:13   ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-26  7:20     ` Jens Axboe
2002-02-26  1:39   ` Alan Cox
2002-02-26  1:15 ` Shawn Starr
2002-02-26  1:32   ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-02-24  5:44     ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-26  4:33       ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-02-26 11:42         ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-26  1:40     ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-26  1:49       ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-02-26  1:51     ` Alan Cox
2002-02-26  8:36   ` Christoph Rohland
2002-02-26  7:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-02-26 16:21   ` Mike Fedyk
2002-02-26 16:53     ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-02-28 22:45       ` Bill Davidsen
2002-02-28 23:04         ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-01  1:04           ` 2.4.19-preX: What we really need: -AA patches finally in the Alan Cox
2002-03-01  1:14             ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-01  3:02           ` 2.4.19-preX: What we really need: -AA patches finally in the tree Bill Davidsen
2002-03-01  3:13             ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-01  3:43               ` Davide Libenzi
2002-03-01 10:36                 ` Sean Hunter [this message]
2002-03-01 17:13                   ` Davide Libenzi
2002-03-01  6:29               ` Olivier Galibert
2002-03-01 16:28           ` Dan Chen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-01  6:41 dart
2002-03-05 21:49 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-03-06  1:05   ` Alan Cox
2002-03-06  1:45     ` James M.
2002-03-06 16:50       ` Ken Brownfield
2002-03-07 10:11         ` Leonid Mamtchenkov
2002-03-06 23:34       ` Yven Leist

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