Re: Kswapd future (was: Re: new kmod.c - debuggers and testers needed)

Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Wed, 15 Apr 1998 15:11:07 +0200 (MET DST)

Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Perry Harrington wrote:
>
> > Is there some way you could tap into the "idle" task processing time
> > to do this?
>
> Yes there is... We could reprogram the idle task to do some
> special task instead of idling.
> This shouldn't be to difficult...

Then make it a different thread. That allows you to see it run,
instead of it being accounted to "idle". You should then give it a
slightly higher priority than the idle task.

Roger.

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