Re: sched_yield() on 2.6.25

[Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>]

On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 08:37 +0200, Jakub Jozwicki wrote:
> > > Is this behavior expected?
> >
> > The behavior of sched_yield with SCHED_OTHER processes has changed
> > several times with Linux over the years, since its behavior is not
> > defined by standards, so it's really "whatever the scheduler feels like
> > doing". The behavior is only defined with realtime scheduling
> > (SCHED_FIFO or SCHED_OTHER).
> >
> > Generally, it's a mistake to assume specific timing behavior from
> > sched_yied for SCHED_OTHER processes.
> 
> From the man sched_yield:
> 
> A  process  can  relinquish  the  processor  voluntarily without blocking by
> calling sched_yield().  The process will then be moved to the  end  of  the 
> queue  for  its static priority and a new process gets to run.
> 
> and also IEEE/Open Group:
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/sched_yield.html

Yeah, except that is for Real-Time scheduling classes, SCHED_OTHER
doesn't have static priority queues.

SCHED_OTHER doesn't have a specified implementation - so relying on it
to do anything specific is well outside the scope of definition.