From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, hch@caldera.com, arjanv@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] preempt abstraction
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 13:13:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C3B36B4.8F7426BF@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10940.1010511619@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>
David Howells wrote:
> ftp://infradead.org/pub/people/dwh/preempt-252p10.diff.bz2
> It also replaces instances of:
>
> if (current->need_resched())
> schedule();
>
> With:
>
> preempt();
Regardless of the benefit of abstracting access to
current->need_resched, I've always thought something like this was
needed for code cleanliness as well. Since yield is now in 2.5.2-preXX,
why not add your patch too. Nice...
Jeff
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-08 18:13 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 [this message]
2002-01-08 18:57 ` Robert Love
2002-01-08 18:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
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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