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From: Mikado <mikado4vn@gmail.com>
To: Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rename "swapper" to "idle"
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 21:40:39 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4448EEE7.5010708@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000301c66503$3bbd8060$0200a8c0@nuitysystems.com>

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Hua Zhong wrote:
> Swapper does not do these things. It just happens to be "running" at that time (and it is always running if the system is idle).
> 
> IOW, it is indeed an "idle" process. In fact, all it does is cpu_idle().

Really? Are your sure that swapper only does cpu_idle()???
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-21 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-20 23:15 [PATCH] Rename "swapper" to "idle" Hua Zhong
2006-04-21  0:17 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-04-21  0:35 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-04-21  4:18   ` Joshua Hudson
2006-04-21  5:19     ` Hua Zhong
2006-04-21 14:40       ` Mikado [this message]
2006-04-21 14:56         ` Michael Buesch
2006-04-21 15:08           ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-04-21 17:05             ` Steven Rostedt

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