Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

[William Lee Irwin III]

On 4/22/07, William Lee Irwin III <wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I'm just looking for what people want the API to be here. With that in
>> hand we can just go out and do whatever needs to be done.

On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 12:17:31AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> I think a sched_yield_to is one interface:
>   int sched_yield_to(pid_t);

All clear on that front.


On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 12:17:31AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> For futex(), the extension is needed for the FUTEX_WAIT operation.  We
> need a new operation FUTEX_WAIT_FOR or so which takes another (the
> fourth) parameter which is the PID of the target.
> For FUTEX_LOCK_PI we need no extension.  The futex value is the PID of
> the current owner.  This is required for the whole interface to work
> in the first place.

We'll have to send things out and see what sticks here. There seems to
be some pickiness above.


-- wli
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