Subject: Re: port-i386/10187: consistent panic: lockmgr: no context
To: Chris Torek <torek@BSDI.COM>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/24/2000 09:31:01
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 10:12:25AM -0600, Chris Torek wrote:

 > As a quick side note, BSD/OS's SMP-NG has a per-CPU idle process.
 > You need a separate kernel stack per CPU for each idle loop anyway,
 > so it seems simplest to just throw a whole proc at each CPU for its
 > idle.

I was originally doing that in my NetBSD SMP work, but decided against
it.  I may eventually switch back to using a full-blown process for
the idle thread once I deal with some other bogus uses of curproc.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>