Re: [patch] "HT scheduler", sched-2.5.63-B3

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Fri, 07 Mar 2003 00:19:32 -0300

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> said:
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > the whole compilation (gcc tasks) will be rated 'interactive' as well,
> > because an 'interactive' make process and/or shell process is waiting on
> > it.
>
> No. The make that is waiting for it will be woken up _once_ - when the
> thing dies. Marking it interactive at that point is absolutely fine.

It is woken up each time one Makefile line has been processed, to call the
next one.

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