On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar
<chambilketha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:13 PM, lalit mohan tripathi
> <lalit.tripa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The comment for function: void scheduler_tick(void) in sched.c seems
>> confusing:
>>
>> [ It also gets called by the fork code, when changing the parent's
>> timeslices. ]
>>
>> I'm not able to find it getting called from fork related code or any
>> other code except the timer interrupt.
>> Is it commenting error?
>
> Can you please be more detailed. please put code and/or line number of what
> you are talking about?
>
I thought it was fairly simple by telling the function name and file.
Please find the code in 2.6.36 kernel.
I have suspicion on second line (It also.... timeslices.), is that
statement true?
3567 * This function gets called by the timer code, with HZ frequency.
3568 * We call it with interrupts disabled.
3569 *
3570 * It also gets called by the fork code, when changing the parent's
3571 * timeslices.
3572 */
3573void scheduler_tick(void)
3574{
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