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Re: pthread question

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Geoff Clare wrote:
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> 9. When a running thread issues the sched_yield() function, the
>    thread becomes the tail of the thread list for its priority.

That makes sense for a uniprocessor.

But nowadays even pocket gadgets are multiprocessors.

> POSIX doesn't standardise internals, but it does standardise how
> threads with the above mentioned scheduling policies are scheduled.

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/xsh_chap02_09.html

"For application threads with scheduling allocation domains of size
greater than one, the rules defined for SCHED_FIFO, SCHED_RR, [TSP] and
SCHED_SPORADIC shall be used in an implementation-defined manner."

Translation: no rules whatsoever.

regards,
alexander.

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              Re: pthread question Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> - 2011-05-12 15:28 +0200
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