On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 01:50:40PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: > > I would like to propose the following mostly cosmetic change: > http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/scheduler-swapper.diff > > This is something that bit me early in my FreeBSD days, so I am kind of > obsessed > with it. > The current naming is confusing/misleading indeed. > And magic properties of SI_SUB_RUN_SCHEDULER:SI_ORDER_LAST is a "hidden gem".
You may remove the Giant unlock from the scheduler()/swapper() as well then, doing it before the swapper() call in the mi_startup(). Note that the wait chain for the idle swapper is still called "sched".
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