Re: [patch] remove set_tsk_need_resched() from init_idle()

[Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>i just noticed that Nick's latest idle-optimizations patch is not in 
>>>-rc4-mm2, so this will cause some clashes.
>>
>>Yeah, hmm. I've just got lazy with porting to other architectures and 
>>sending to Andrew. I'll get it into shape in the next day or so and so 
>>this patch will go on top of it hopefully before Andrew is ready to 
>>release the next kernel.
> 
> 
> we could do it in the other direction just as much - i only touched 3 
> architectures. Up to Andrew i guess.
> 

How about just setting need_resched at the start of the cpu_idle
function instead? Rather than changing the structure of the idle
loops themselves. That would suit me best.

Thanks,
Nick