From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030303AbXCLOyV (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:54:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030307AbXCLOyV (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:54:21 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.190]:3272 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030303AbXCLOyU (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:54:20 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=a0lq4zFhe4W8E1rJ0pQNPKc1LRQ7mMvmAgQxt6qz5mPwPtMqVSbNxswYWKbcIoodAGmTni54MXyR6A0gYxNwxKUzmVHxK5T4MBOyZU3iatUOvYAtrSMyUTCYGyCs1zPCSrkQgwD42Atc4ghKlCZxW//8VYOzalTwFk6OPf+Q7oE= Message-ID: <2c0942db0703120754y13f4aa85g53bca542ec88100d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:54:18 -0400 From: "Ray Lee" Reply-To: ray-gmail@madrabbit.org To: davids@webmaster.com Subject: Re: RSDL-mm 0.28 Cc: "Matt Mackall" , linux-kernel , ck@vds.kolivas.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <8cd998d50703101828l71fbec7bi9a819ad7b7fd9828@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 3/12/07, David Schwartz wrote: > In no case is much of anything guaranteed, of course. (What can you do if > there's no other process to yield to?) Perhaps if sched_yield()'s effects were cumulative inside a timeslice, then eventually the calling task would get pushed far enough down that others would run. Ray