On 28-Nov-01 Bruce Evans wrote: > On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > >> We don't do preemption in the kernel yet, so they need to yield the CPU when >> another thread is available. The page zeroing thread does this wrong as it >> should check procrunnable() instead of switching after doing N pages. The >> idle > > Except it would always find at least itself runnable :-).
No b/c it isn't on the runqueue when it does the check. :) Nor is the default idle loop ever on the runqueues. > Bruce -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
