cvs commit: src/sys/sparc64/sparc64 vm_machdep.c

John Baldwin jhb at FreeBSD.org
Fri May 21 07:07:03 PDT 2004


On Thursday 20 May 2004 04:04 pm, Julian Elischer wrote:
> On Thu, 20 May 2004, Thomas Moestl wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004/05/20 at 11:48:19 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > > While you are there, can you rename it to cpu_exit2()
> > > as it has nothing to do with the scheduler..
> >
> > As I mentioned previously, the connection is that this function must
> > be called with sched_lock held (and it must be held until the final
> > cpu_throw() after that). It does tasks that have a connection to
> > thread switching, so the name is not really inappropriate.
> >
> > cpu_exit2 is far less descriptive as a name.
>
> but less misleading than cpu_sched_sxit()
>
> switching is nothing to do with the scheduler..

Uh, switching between threads is all the scheduler does.  cpu_exit2() is a 
horrible name.  One question for Thomas, can the sparc64 cpu_switch() and/or 
cpu_throw() just call this function directly to avoid having exit1
()/thread_exit()/whoever know about it?

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