On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 08:25:37AM -0800, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> Actually, that's an implementation matter ... We can make the reaper
> thread very low priority such that it only runs when the idle loop
> would be run (this would require a slight change to the run queues,
> I think, so that other normal low priority processes wouldn't have
> to compete for round-robin slots with the idle-priority threads).

Couldn't the job be done in the idle loop, just as we zero free pages ?

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