Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 15:53:50 -0700 From: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net> To: dg@Root.COM Cc: freebsd-smp@freefall.freebsd.org, Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com> Subject: Re: SMP -current merge Message-ID: <199611232253.PAA20073@clem.systemsix.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 23 Nov 1996 14:44:48 PST." <199611232244.OAA01965@root.com>
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Hi,
>>If there are 2 CPUS smp_kickoff() creates 2 idleprocs, and thus there
>>are 2 possible processess that can be in the idleq.
>
> Oh...I didn't realize that it was handled this way. This is going to need
>to be re-thought. The idle processes should probably not be on any of the
>queues and handled as a special case. Otherwise they will compete for CPU
>with other idprio processes, and that would be bad.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
perhaps I'm incorrect in my thinking here, I thought the idleq was strictly
for the cpuidle[ NCPU ] processes. What other "idle" processes are there?
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