From: "Joshua Hudson" <joshudson@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rename "swapper" to "idle"
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:18:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bda6d13a0604202118t51709a70g1f2402efb8ecbfe@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1FWjcX-0007Hj-00@calista.inka.de>
On 4/20/06, Bernd Eckenfels <be-news06@lina.inka.de> wrote:
> Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This patch renames the "swapper" process (pid 0) to a more appropriate name "idle". The name "swapper" is not obviously meaningful and confuses a lot of people (e.g., when seen in oops report).
> > Patch not tested, but I guess it works. :-)
As we saw in "Which process is associated with process ID 0 (swapper)",
pid 0 can actually do things, such as resend TCP packets. Methinks idle
isn't the best name either.
>
> on win the system idle process shows up in taskmanager so you can see its
> cpu usage and ctx switches scheduled from it. We could avoid the skipping in
> /proc, also?
>
> Gruss
> Bernd
Please, no!
I already have to explain this mess about Windows. We shouldn't be implementing
Microsoft's flaws. Why waist the a line of screen for top?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-21 4:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-20 23:15 Hua Zhong
2006-04-21 0:17 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-04-21 0:35 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-04-21 4:18 ` Joshua Hudson [this message]
2006-04-21 5:19 ` Hua Zhong
2006-04-21 14:40 ` Mikado
2006-04-21 14:56 ` Michael Buesch
2006-04-21 15:08 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-04-21 17:05 ` Steven Rostedt
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