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

[Gedare Bloom]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 4:24 AM, Sebastian Huber
<sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:
> 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.
>
OK.I suggest "is_dangling". There is a relationship with "dangling
pointers" here.

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