On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > The other way around, you mean: we spin until the owner is no longer > holding a cpu. Btw, I hate the name of the helper function for that. "task_is_current()"? "current" means something totally different in the linux kernel: it means that the task is _this_ task. So the only sensible implementation of "task_is_current(task)" is to just make it return "task == current", but that's obviously not what the function wants to do. So it should be renamed. Something like "task_is_oncpu()" or whatever. I realize that the scheduler internally has that whole "rq->curr" thing, but that's an internal scheduler thing, and should not be confused with the overall kernel model of "current". Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
