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SubjectRE: [patch] scheduler bugfix, SMP, 2.4.0-test7

On 28-Aug-2000 Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I think the right solution is to completely split up "schedule()" into two
> different functions (which just share 99% of the code), and basically have
> the idle thread call the _other_ schedule. The one that never does the
> test at all.

Just to clarify, you're suggesting having a schedule_and_btw_current_is_idle
and calling this from cpu_idle(), right? In this case the two schedules
would share quite a bit less than 99% of the code. Idle tasks don't have to
deal with kernel lock, ->state, SCHED_YIELD and RT exhaustion, to name a few.
Instead, they might deal with more productive things such as direct handoff
of a process that just went through reschedule_idle and selected an idle cpu.

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Dimitris Michailidis dimitris@engr.sgi.com
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