Re: O(1) on powerpc....

From: Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Date: Fri Jan 25 2002 - 11:12:49 EST


On 25 Jan 2002, Robert Love wrote:

> We could do some things to generically make the other arches
> compatible with the new scheduler, things like:
>
> #define smp_processor_id() (current->processor)
>
> still need to be fixed (to use ->cpu). I bet after a trivial
> find/replace there is little left to do.

it's often more subtle then this. Every arch has to:

- implement the lowlevel task-migration mechanizm

- update the idle-thread code to use init_idle() + idle_startup_done().
  Update the idle-thread priority changing bits.

- check context_switch() for IRQ-atomicity for being called with the
  runqueue lock held - eg. ia64 re-enabled interrupts.

- add a definition of sched_find_first_bit()

- update any possible out-of-sync field offsets in entry.S.

so i'd not touch the trivial bits, because the hard bits will still be
unfixed, and who likes fixing the hard stuff only? :-)

        Ingo

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