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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: where is the idle_loop in current ?
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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


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