[PATCH 10/12] smp: Optimize Simple SMP scheduler

Chris Johns chrisj at rtems.org
Wed Aug 14 18:52:16 UTC 2013


Gedare Bloom wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Sebastian Huber
> <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>  wrote:
>>
>>     /**
>> +   * @brief This field is true if the thread is in the air.
>> +   *
>> +   * A thread is in the air if it is in a transient state.  The extract
>> +   * operation on a scheduled thread will produce threads in the air.  Such
>> +   * threads are no longer on the scheduled chain, but are still allocated to a
>> +   * processor.  The next enqueue or schedule operation will decide what to do.
>> +   */
>> +  bool                                  is_in_the_air;
>> +
> At first I did not like this term "in the air" but I cannot think of a
> better term right now.
>

What about 'is_bound_and_transient' ?

Chris



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