Re: [RFC][PATCH] #define yield() for 2.4 scheduler (anticipating O(1))

Ken Brownfield (brownfld@irridia.com)
Fri, 1 Mar 2002 16:28:56 -0600

I doubt this is an issue specific to the kernel or patches -- I've had
O(1) running with -aa and -rmap for quite some time with no problems. I
was recoding rather than implementing the macro, but the concept was the
same.

-- 
Ken.
brownfld@irridia.com


On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 11:18:12PM +0200, Bongani Hlope wrote:
| I once tried to apply the O(1) scheduler on 2.4.18-pre9 + aa vm and I
| made a similar change (the O(1) patch was rejected on buffer.c) and it
| caused so corruption on my file system (ext2), but I'm still not sure
| what cause it that change was my main concern. I think Ingo is using
| sys_sched_yield(); instead of yield. I will still be carefull about it
| though.
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