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¶

ARGUMENTS¶

p preempt

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.

RETURN¶

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¶