Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-00

Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-04-05T08:00:44Z

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Esben Nielsen wrote:

> > I'm sure a lot of the yield() users could be converted to
> > schedule_timeout(), some of the users i saw were for low memory conditions
> > where we want other tasks to make progress and complete so that we a bit
> > more free memory.
> >
>
> Easy, but damn ugly. Completions are the right answer. The memory system
> needs a queue system where tasks can sleep (with a timeout) until the
> right amount of memory is available instead of half busy-looping.

I agree entirely, that would definitely be a better way to go eventually.