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SubjectRe: 2.4.10pre7aa1
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> However the issue with keventd and the fact we can get away with a
> single per-cpu counter increase in the scheduler fast path made us to
> think it's cleaner to just spend such cycle for each schedule rather
> than having yet another 8k per cpu wasted and longer taskslists (a
> local cpu increase is cheaper than a conditional jump).

So why don't we put the test+branch inside keventd ?

wakeup_krcud(void)
{
krcud_wanted = 1;
wakeup(&keventd);
}

cheers,

Rik
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