| Date | Wed, 5 Mar 2014 16:56:01 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Pre-emption control for userspace |
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On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 03:54:20PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > On 03/04, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > Anything else? > > Well, we have yield_to(). Perhaps sys_yield_to(lock_owner) can help. > Or perhaps sys_futex() can do this if it knows the owner. Don't ask > me what exactly I mean though ;)
You mean yield_to() would extend the time slice?
That would be the same as the mmap page, just with a syscall right?
-andi
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