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

[Joel Sherrill]

On 8/14/2013 2:51 PM, Chris Johns wrote:
> Gedare Bloom wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Chris Johns<chrisj at rtems.org>  wrote:
>>> 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' ?
>>>
>> the term we use now is "allocated" for a thread that has been assigned
>> to a specific core for execution. So it would be
>> "is_allocated_and_transient" to be precise, or change the "allocated"
>> to "bound" to mean a thread on a core...
>>
> Allocated is a rather overloaded term.
+1

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