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

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl)
Wed, 15 Apr 1998 18:13:19 +0200 (MET DST)


On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Rogier Wolff wrote:

> 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.

This would also cost us some memory for the task struct
etc. Although I admit that a separate thread is more
clean...

Rik.
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