From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932340AbWDUOwg (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:52:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932343AbWDUOwg (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:52:36 -0400 Received: from static-ip-62-75-166-246.inaddr.intergenia.de ([62.75.166.246]:1229 "EHLO bu3sch.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932340AbWDUOwf (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:52:35 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: mikado4vn@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rename "swapper" to "idle" Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:56:50 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <000301c66503$3bbd8060$0200a8c0@nuitysystems.com> <4448EEE7.5010708@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4448EEE7.5010708@gmail.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hua Zhong MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart12876845.kjO37JbVYJ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200604211656.50485.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart12876845.kjO37JbVYJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 th= at 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(). >=20 > Really? Are your sure that swapper only does cpu_idle()??? Yes. Idle is by definition Nothing. =2D-=20 Greetings Michael. --nextPart12876845.kjO37JbVYJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBESPKylb09HEdWDKgRAmQSAJ461LsWMOqFChajyZtZZyKdrzJ3KwCeLvrG P84bRkXqafYcefQZEH97qgI= =xSHc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart12876845.kjO37JbVYJ--