On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar <chambilkethakur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:13 PM, lalit mohan tripathi > <lalit.tripathi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> The comment for function: void scheduler_tick(void) in sched.c seems >> confusing: >> >> [ It also gets called by the fork code, when changing the parent's >> timeslices. ] >> >> I'm not able to find it getting called from fork related code or any >> other code except the timer interrupt. >> Is it commenting error? > > Can you please be more detailed. please put code and/or line number of what > you are talking about? > I thought it was fairly simple by telling the function name and file. Please find the code in 2.6.36 kernel. I have suspicion on second line (It also.... timeslices.), is that statement true? 3567 * This function gets called by the timer code, with HZ frequency. 3568 * We call it with interrupts disabled. 3569 * 3570 * It also gets called by the fork code, when changing the parent's 3571 * timeslices. 3572 */ 3573void scheduler_tick(void) 3574{ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ