I find the "pulling" threads comment for the migration thread
misleading: the migration thread is running on the source CPU, not the
target.
Ingo?
Rusty.
diff -urpN -I '\$.*\$' --exclude TAGS -X /home/rusty/devel/kernel/kernel-patches/current-dontdiff --minimal linux-2.5.30/kernel/sched.c working-2.5.30-comment/kernel/sched.c
--- linux-2.5.30/kernel/sched.c 2002-08-02 11:15:10.000000000 +1000
+++ working-2.5.30-comment/kernel/sched.c 2002-08-06 12:06:08.000000000 +1000
@@ -1959,7 +1959,8 @@ out:
/*
* migration_thread - this is a highprio system thread that performs
- * thread migration by 'pulling' threads into the target runqueue.
+ * thread migration by bumping the process off this cpu and then
+ * pushing it onto the new runqueue.
*/
static int migration_thread(void * data)
{
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