Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:18:46 -0700 | From | "Joshua Hudson" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Rename "swapper" to "idle" |
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On 4/20/06, Bernd Eckenfels <be-news06@lina.inka.de> wrote: > Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com> wrote: > > This patch renames the "swapper" process (pid 0) to a more appropriate name "idle". The name "swapper" is not obviously meaningful and confuses a lot of people (e.g., when seen in oops report). > > Patch not tested, but I guess it works. :-)
As we saw in "Which process is associated with process ID 0 (swapper)", pid 0 can actually do things, such as resend TCP packets. Methinks idle isn't the best name either.
> > on win the system idle process shows up in taskmanager so you can see its > cpu usage and ctx switches scheduled from it. We could avoid the skipping in > /proc, also? > > Gruss > Bernd Please, no!
I already have to explain this mess about Windows. We shouldn't be implementing Microsoft's flaws. Why waist the a line of screen for top? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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