Re: yield API

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On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 08:46 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

[...]

> APIs that are not in any real, meaningful use, despite a decade of 
> presence are not really interesting to me personally. (especially in 
> this case where we know exactly _why_ the API is used so rarely.) Sure 
> we'll continue to support it in the best possible way, with the usual 
> kernel maintainance policy: without hurting other, more commonly used 
> APIs. That was the principle we followed in previous schedulers too. And 
> if anyone has a patch to make sched_yield() better than it is today, i'm 
> of course interested in it.

Do you still have intentions to add a directed yield API?  I remember
seeing it in the earlier CFS patches.


- Eric


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