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

[Sebastian Huber]

On 2013-08-19 20:53, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> On 2013-08-19 20:42, Gedare Bloom wrote:
>> That's good with me. I assumed you wanted to somehow encode both
>> "!is_scheduled && is_transient" in this "is_in_the_air", but if all
>> you need is to know when the thread is transient, then we should use
>> "is_transient".
>
> What this state encodes is:
>
> The thread has an allocated processor (it is a heir or executing thread on
> exactly one processor) and the STATES_TRANSIENT is set (e.g. it is not ready
> and thus not a member of a scheduled or ready chain).
>

I kept the name "is_in_the_air", since "is_transient" turned out to be quite 
confusing.  I think it is better to have one distinct name for a particular 
state.  We can change this field easily if we find something better.

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