netdev - Re: [Patch net] net_sched: replace yield() with cond

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Date:   Fri, 07 Apr 2017 05:59:02 +0200
From:   Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:     Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch net] net_sched: replace yield() with cond_resched()

On Thu, 2017-04-06 at 18:13 -0400, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> Why not replace yield with msleep(1) which gets rid of the inversion
> issues?

That's fine, just not super efficient, if that matters.

	-Mike