Subject: Re: the reaper
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/11/2001 09:08:00 
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 05:55:42PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

 > Couldn't the job be done in the idle loop, just as we zero free pages ?

No, the idle loop has no thread context.  Thread context is required
to do what the reaper does, as the work requires acquiring sleep locks.

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