On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 11:38 -0700, Howard Chu wrote: > Nick Piggin wrote: > > Robert Hancock wrote: > > > I fail to see how sched_yield is going to be very helpful in this > > > situation. Since that call can sleep from a range of time ranging > > > from zero to a long time, it's going to give unpredictable results. > > > Well, not sleep technically, but yield the CPU for some undefined > > amount of time. > > Since the slapd server was not written to run in realtime, nor is it > commonly run on realtime operating systems, I don't believe predictable > timing here is a criteria we care about. One could say the same of > sigsuspend() by the way - it can pause a process for a range of time > ranging from zero to a long time. Should we tell application writers not > to use this function either, regardless of whether the developer thinks > they have a good reason to use it?
Of course not. We should tell them that if they use sigsuspend() they cannot assume that the process will not wake up immediately. Lee - 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/
