Re: kmod patch

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 28 Aug 1998 17:06:27 +0100


On Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 02:03:46AM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> Note: init_task does not run "init". It's the original hand-crafted
> task from which all other tasks descend. init_task itself is in tasks[0],
> and becomes the idle task for the first CPU after forking "init".

Perhaps the idle tasks should share attributes with init itself? I.e.,
use CLONE_FS|CLONE_VM to save a bit of memory? It's not like the idle
tasks _care_ what resources they have, since they don't use them.

-- Jamie

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