Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:47:49 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>, <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: where is the idle_loop in current ? Message-ID: <20011128184046.O2102-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.011126094330.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > We don't do preemption in the kernel yet, so they need to yield the CPU when > another thread is available. The page zeroing thread does this wrong as it > should check procrunnable() instead of switching after doing N pages. The idle Except it would always find at least itself runnable :-). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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