Re: [PATCH] preempt abstraction

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Tue, 08 Jan 2002 13:13:08 -0500


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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