[Bug 1819] Add SMP Awareness to Thread Timeslicing

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https://www.rtems.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1819

--- Comment #5 from Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com> 2011-06-17 08:37:11 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > (In reply to comment #2)
> > > Seems reasonable to me. How about just _Scheduler_Tick as a name? with field
> > > *tick for the operations table?
> > 
> > I have no strong commitment to the name.  Consensus rules.  
> > 
> I suppose to be consistent we should also consider _Scheduler_Tickle. I prefer
> just _Scheduler_Tick though I have not great reason why.

I will go with Tick.  I don't know how many tickle's will be left after this.
Probably not as many.

> > Do you like the idea of having a tick handler in the scheduler?  It seems like
> > it will help on some schedulers.
> Yes. It would support tick-based scheduling decisions such as timeslicing or
> round-robin scheduling.

I was wondering about EDF.  It needs some time awareness also.

I will rename to "_Scheduler_Tick" and commit.

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