Re: yield() in i2c non-happy paths hits BUG under -rt patch

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Nov 19 2009 - 07:58:01 EST


> Well, I guess only people monitoring system latency would notice, as
> this is the only thing yield() was supposed to help with in the first
> place.

if (need_resched())
schedule();

will make non-rt tasks act politely at the right moments. RT tasks will
likely immediately get to take the CPU again depending upon the
scheduling parameters in use.
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