Re: how to let all others run

[Richard B. Johnson]

On 4 Apr 2001, John Fremlin wrote:

> 
> Hi Oliver!
> 
>  Oliver Neukum <[e-mail]> writes:
> 
> > is there a way to let all other runable tasks run until they block
> > or return to user space, before the task wishing to do so is run
> > again ?
> 
> Are you trying to do this in kernel or something? From userspace you
> can use nice(2) then sched_yield(2), though I don't know if the linux
> implementations will guarrantee anything.
> 

I recommend using usleep(0) instead of sched_yield(). Last time I
checked, sched_yield() seemed to spin and eat CPU cycles, usleep(0)
always gives up the CPU.

Try:
	for(;;) usleep();

and 
	for(;;) sched_yield();

.. you'll see a quiet behavior under `top` for usleep(0), and over 80%
with sched_yield().

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

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