From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264260AbUGIFJr (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2004 01:09:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264266AbUGIFJr (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2004 01:09:47 -0400 Received: from smtp105.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.169.225]:27504 "HELO smtp105.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264260AbUGIFJk (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2004 01:09:40 -0400 Message-ID: <40EE288F.20301@yahoo.com.au> Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 15:09:35 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040401 Debian/1.6-4 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: William Lee Irwin III CC: "David S. Miller" , Ingo Molnar , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.7-mm6 References: <20040705023120.34f7772b.akpm@osdl.org> <20040706125438.GS21066@holomorphy.com> <20040706233618.GW21066@holomorphy.com> <20040706170247.5bca760c.davem@redhat.com> <20040707073510.GA27609@elte.hu> <20040707140249.2bfe0a4b.davem@redhat.com> <40EE06B1.1090202@yahoo.com.au> <20040709025151.GV21066@holomorphy.com> In-Reply-To: <20040709025151.GV21066@holomorphy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 12:45:05PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > >>We could make CLONE_IDLETASK clones not do the wakeup? >>Ingo? I guess an alternative is to have the arch explicitly >>make a call to dequeue it. > > > This is all just context switching and bootstrap ordering, but I really > have other vastly more urgent things to do at the moment than cleanups. If you could help that would be great. You needn't do anything other than test. The patch sort of enables run cloned thread last which allows us to remove balance on clone, which is important. For me. > Please present a self-contained fixed-up init_idle() cleanup for me to > testboot. Even the one in -mm is not so, as it depends on later patches > to even compile. The patch I just sent (which is on top of -mm6) should hopefully work... if you feel like testing a solution that may still get vetoed by Ingo. Also, what compile errors are you getting? i386 seems to compile kernel/ fine with only the first sched- patch applied.