On 6/7/07, Erik Mouw <mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
what is a "Swapper" task. Can you explain what work does it do and why does it do so many IO transfers.
devvrat
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On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:02:03PM +0200, Devvrat Tripathi wrote:
> I wanted to ask you if current pid will work at the driver level. i used in
> pci-gart.c to get the processes which are using DMA transfer but stragely i
> get 0 sometimes and sometime proper pid's.
0 is a proper pid as well, it's the "swapper" task.
Erik
what is a "Swapper" task. Can you explain what work does it do and why does it do so many IO transfers.
devvrat
