On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > local_irq_disable();
> > if (current->counter > 0)
> > --current->counter;
> > local_irq_enable();
>
> Umm: SuS sayeth..
>
> DESCRIPTION
>
> The sched_yield() function forces the running thread to relinquish the
> processor until it again becomes the head of its thread list. It takes
> no arguments.
>
> Which doesnt seem to be what you are doing.
1) the scheduler in 2.5.2-pre3 does it in a different way because the
dynamic priority is split from the time slice.
2) the current scheduler does not permit you doing such a thing in a smart
way so, if i've to choose i prefer an implementation that solves
real world cases. i challenge you to measure the counter tick loss
during the yield() call anyway. it's very easy indeed to measure
the current behavior, like we're currently seeing
- Davide
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