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 if we indeed boosted the target task.