Re: schedule()

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> "Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
> > 
> > I just read on this list that:
> > 
> >     while(something)
> >     {
> >       current->policy |= SCHED_YIELD;
> >       schedule();
> >     }
> > 
> > Will no longer be allowed in a kernel module! If this is true, how
> > do I loop, waiting for a bit in a port, without wasting CPU time?
> 
> Call yield() or better yet, schedule_timeout()
> 
> In 2.4, define the above to be yield() in some compatibility module...

Okay, thanks. I'll change my code to YIELD and define a macro for
both versions.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

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