On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Mark Gross wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 04:27:47PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > > Rafael: > > > > This patch adds the icebox, for use by kernel threads that want to > > freeze themselves without using the freezer -- which is likely to crop > > up when the freezer gets eliminated. > > Why can't we have a runque per cpu that never gets scheduled and we simply > migrate the treads to those? no more yield loops. Indeed. Why stop there? Why not eliminate wait_event() entirely, or rather, re-implement it as you suggest? :-) Alan Stern _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
