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SubjectRe: [patch] idle_task was wasting a lot of CPU

On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Hmm.. The idle tasks _should_ have a negative counter value all the time,
> at least they used to. That's the proper fix, to make sure that the
> counter value is never positive in the first place.
>
> I wonder when that broke?

oops, i think those came in by accident with the SMP idle-reschedule stuff
in 2.1.111.

on the bright side, 2.1.131 should be a killer ;)

this is the 2.1.111 breakage:

--- v2.1.110/linux/arch/i386/kernel/process.c Tue Jul 21 00:15:30 1998
+++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/process.c Wed Jul 22 14:45:23 1998
@@ -115,8 +115,8 @@
if (current->pid != 0)
goto out;
/* endless idle loop with no priority at all */
- current->priority = -100;
- current->counter = -100;
+ current->priority = 0;
+ current->counter = 0;
for (;;) {
[...etc...]

-- mingo

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