Re: CVS commit: src/sys

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 05:21:22PM +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
> Log Message:
> Maintain a bitmap of idle CPUs and add idle_pick() to find an idle CPU
> and remove it from the bitmap.

At some point we need to think about interaction with deeper sleep
states like C2 and C3 on x86. This are per physical CPU and the
scheduler should know about to make informed decisions. So a bitmap
might be too limiting.

Joerg