RFC: scheduler, and per-arch switch_to

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Mon Feb 11 2002 - 08:29:36 EST

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Do we really care about the third arg to the switch_to() macro?

IMHO it would be nice to define the architecture context switch
interface like

void switch_to(struct thread_info *from, struct thread_info *to);

because we don't really seem to do much with the third arg, AFAICS.

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