Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Dec 1998 00:07:51 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [patch] idle_task was wasting a lot of CPU |
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On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:
>IMHO a separate test for the idle task will be better.
Rik, the timer irq will play only with process with pid != 0. I can' t see your point for continuing to check for current == idle_task even if the counter of the idle taks is -4.
Andrea Arcangeli
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