| YIELD_TO(9) | Driver Basics | YIELD_TO(9) |
NAME¶
yield_to - yield the current processor to another thread in your thread group, or accelerate that thread toward the processor it´s on.
SYNOPSIS¶
bool __sched yield_to(struct task_struct * p, bool preempt);
ARGUMENTS¶
p
-- undescribed --
preempt
-- undescribed --
DESCRIPTION¶
It´s the caller´s job to ensure that the target task struct can´t go away on us before we can do any checks.
RETURNS¶
true (>0) if we indeed boosted the target task. false (0) if we failed to boost the target. -ESRCH if there´s no task to yield to.
COPYRIGHT¶
| April 2023 | Kernel Hackers Manual 2.6. |