> : >> If I remember from a discussion with John Baldwin, the reason we
> : >> don't do this (yet) is that HLT only wakes up when you take an
> : >> interrupt, and there are cases where we can't guarantee that we'll
> : >> take an interrupt in order to get us out of the HLT.
> : >
> : >I thought that's what the timer interrupts were for... We can't
> : >guarantee that we'll get one? That seems very serious to me.
> :
> : The problem is that one cpu may wich to schedule a process to run on
> : the idle cpu, but it can't because the idle cpu is halted and won't
> : wake up until the next irq.
>
> Since I'm running a UP kernel, that can't happen.
Actually, there are pathalogical cases where it could, but they are,
well, pathalogical. 8)
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