On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 14:58, John Levon wrote:
> How will cond_resched() work ? Surely that will only give a chance if
> the current process has reached the end of its timeslice (need_resched)
> ? Isn't "schedule()" the right thing here ?
need_resched is set whenever there is a higher priority process that is
now runnable (it is set on wake_up()). Otherwise cond_resched() would
be fairly worthless.. and kernel preemption, etc.
Robert Love
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