2015-02-26 21:53 GMT+08:00 Marco van de Voort <mar...@stack.nl>: > > No, basically a sleeping thread is marked in the scheduler as "do not > schedule for nn > ticks". The thread doesn't run to evaluate if it should contiue. That is > the > scheduler/kernel's task. > > That's even better. And the key point is, after nn ticks, it is **AUTOMATICALLY** re-scheduled, without the need of knowledge of other threads/processes running on the system!
This is the effect of a thread voluntarily gives up its cpu share, but not let other thread to control its "fate".
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