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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
Kernel Hackers Manual 2.6.	 November 2013			   YIELD_TO(9)
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