Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Pre-emption control for userspace

[Andi Kleen]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 03:54:20PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 03/04, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> > Anything else?
> 
> Well, we have yield_to(). Perhaps sys_yield_to(lock_owner) can help.
> Or perhaps sys_futex() can do this if it knows the owner. Don't ask
> me what exactly I mean though ;)

You mean yield_to() would extend the time slice?

That would be the same as the mmap page, just with a syscall right?

-andi

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