> yielding IS blocking. Just with indeterminate fuzzyness added to it....
Yielding is sort of blocking, but the difference is that yielding will not idle the CPU while blocking might. Yielding is sometimes preferable to blocking in a case where the thread knows it can make forward progress even if it doesn't get the resource. (As in the examples I explained.) DS - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
