Mark Vojkovich writes:
 > 
 >   Your experience is out of date.  If I've just filled a Megabyte
 > DMA fifo and I'm waiting to cram another Megabyte into it, how
 > quick is my FIFO busy loop then?  I've had great success with
 > sched_yield().
 > 

The DMA buffer  case may be different than the video case I 
mentioned before. sched_yield may in fact be useful if such 
large buffers have to be processed.
However it is not a general solution for every fifo wait.

Egbert.
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