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    SubjectRe: [patch, 2.6.11-rc2] sched: RLIMIT_RT_CPU_RATIO feature
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    >that might be all well and good, but i believe you still dont understand
    >my point: for yield_to() to work the target task _needs to be running_.

    correct, i did not understand. perhaps Con didn't either. my idea was
    related to:

    >in theory it would be possible to add two new syscalls: sys_suspend()
    >and sys_wakeup(tid), where suspend would just enter TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE

    but more like:

    sys_suspend_and_wake (tid)

    where current enters TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE, and process_wakeup() is
    called on tid.

    >having this API on 2.4 kernels. But it would have one big advantage: it
    >would be evidently and trivially RT-safe :-)

    no small advantage.

    it has another big advantage from the user space perspective: no other
    information is required apart from <tid>. no state needs to be
    maintained by the system that uses this. thats a huge win over the
    baroque collection of FIFOs (or futexes) that we have to look after now.

    --p
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