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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 10/22] sched: add a syscall to wait for the next instance
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On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 20:21 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 08:35 +0200, Raistlin wrote:
> >
> > Introduce sched_wait_interval() syscall (and scheduling class
> > interface call). In general, this aims at providing each scheduling
> > class with a mean of making one of its own task sleep for some time
> > according to some specific rule of the scheduling class itself.
> >
> Did we have an actual use case for this? I seem to remember that the
> last time we seemed to thing job wakeups are due to external events, in
> which case we don't need this.
>
Might find out something, but I mostly agree with what you're saying.

> I think we should try without this patch first and only consider this
> once we merged the base functionality and have a solid use-case for
> this.
>
Consider it as already dropped! :-)

Thanks,
Dario

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