Re: 2.4.19-preX: What we really need: -AA patches finally in the tree

Sean Hunter (sean@dev.sportingbet.com)
Fri, 1 Mar 2002 10:36:00 +0000


Excuse my stupidity, but would a patch that just adds Davide's macro and
changes all instances of

current->policy |= SCHED_YIELD;
schedule();

to yield() be acceptable? Is there more involved than that, because I am
perfectly happy to create and submit such a patch.

...or am I just being dumb?

Sean

On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 07:43:57PM -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> > Not at all. The yield() function would just be a define to
> > the code which no longer works with the new scheduler, ie:
> >
> > #define yield() \
> > current->policy |= SCHED_YIELD; \
> > schedule();
>
> or better :
>
> #define yield() \
> do { \
> current->policy |= SCHED_YIELD; \
> schedule(); \
> } while (0)
>
>
>
> - Davide
>
>
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