Re: [PATCH] Rename "swapper" to "idle"

On Friday 21 April 2006 16:40, Mikado wrote:
> Hua Zhong wrote:
> > Swapper does not do these things. It just happens to be "running" at that time (and it is always running if the system is idle).
> >
> > IOW, it is indeed an "idle" process. In fact, all it does is cpu_idle().
> 
> Really? Are your sure that swapper only does cpu_idle()???

Yes.
Idle is by definition Nothing.

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