Re: idle task was __cliing the local CPU even if not needed

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Tue, 15 Dec 1998 22:13:37 +0100 (CET)


On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

>With this patch applyed the idle task run schedule() only if need_resched
>is true. It seems that now under high IDE load my ppp link stopped to
>drop/[not send] packes as it was used to do.

Hug a little incremental fix to allow UP compile ;)

Index: linux/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
diff -u linux/arch/i386/kernel/process.c:1.1.1.1.2.17 linux/arch/i386/kernel/process.c:1.1.1.1.2.18
--- linux/arch/i386/kernel/process.c:1.1.1.1.2.17 Tue Dec 15 20:07:08 1998
+++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/process.c Tue Dec 15 21:07:49 1998
@@ -126,7 +126,9 @@
if (boot_cpu_data.hlt_works_ok && !hlt_counter && !*need_resched)
__asm__("hlt");

+#ifdef CONFIG_APM
}
+#endif
if (*need_resched)
{
schedule();

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