From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: mikado4vn@gmail.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rename "swapper" to "idle"
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:56:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200604211656.50485.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4448EEE7.5010708@gmail.com>
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On Friday 21 April 2006 16:40, Mikado wrote:
> 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()???
Yes.
Idle is by definition Nothing.
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Greetings Michael.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-21 14:52 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
2006-04-21 14:56 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2006-04-21 15:08 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-04-21 17:05 ` Steven Rostedt
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