Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jan 2002 00:22:18 +0100 (CET) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] O(1) scheduler, -G1, 2.5.2-pre10, 2.4.17 (fwd) |
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > First it cleans up the load balancer's interaction with the timer tick. > > There are now two functions called from the timer tick: busy_cpu_tick() > > and idle_cpu_tick(). It's completely up to the scheduler to use them > > appropriately. > > This is _wrong_. The timer doesn't even know whether something is an idle > task or not.
yes - thought of this after writing the mail.
> Proof: kapmd (right now the scheduler doesn't know this either, but at > least we could teach it to know).
yes - pid == 0 is not the right information. I've fixed this in my tree.
Ingo
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