.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man .\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at: .\" .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng . .TH "SYS_SCHED_YIELD" "" "06 October 2005" "" "" .SH NAME sys_sched_yield \- yield the current processor to other threads. .SH SYNOPSIS "SYNOPSIS" .sp \fB .sp asmlinkage long sys_sched_yield ( \fIvoid\fB); \fR .SH "ARGUMENTS" .TP \fB\fIvoid\fB\fR no arguments .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP .PP this function yields the current CPU by moving the calling thread to the expired array. If there are no other threads running on this CPU then this function will return.