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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 16:54:47 +0100
From: mikpe@csd.uu.se
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] 2.4.21-pre5 correct scheduling of idle tasks [ all arch ]
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Keith Owens writes:
 > There are several inconsistencies in the scheduling of idle tasks and,
 > for UP, tracking which task is on the cpu.  This patch standardizes
 > idle task scheduling across all architectures and corrects the UP
 > error, it is just a bug fix.
...
 > To make it worse, on UP a task is assigned to a cpu but never released.
 > Very quickly, all tasks are marked as currently running on cpu 0 :(.

->cpus_runnable and task_has_cpu() are SMP-only, as a quick grep
through 2.4.20 will tell you. There is no UP bug here to fix.

/Mikael
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