Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-22T08:57:03Z

On 4/22/07, William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
>> I'm just looking for what people want the API to be here. With that in
>> hand we can just go out and do whatever needs to be done.

On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 12:17:31AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> I think a sched_yield_to is one interface:
> int sched_yield_to(pid_t);

All clear on that front.

On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 12:17:31AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> For futex(), the extension is needed for the FUTEX_WAIT operation. We
> need a new operation FUTEX_WAIT_FOR or so which takes another (the
> fourth) parameter which is the PID of the target.
> For FUTEX_LOCK_PI we need no extension. The futex value is the PID of
> the current owner. This is required for the whole interface to work
> in the first place.

We'll have to send things out and see what sticks here. There seems to
be some pickiness above.

-- wli