The general trend is to remove it from all kernel interfaces and
this is a start. In case the calling lwp is desired, curlwp should
be used.
quick consensus on tech-kern
tech-kern:
- Invert priority space so that zero is the lowest priority. Rearrange
number and type of priority levels into bands. Add new bands like
'kernel real time'.
- Ignore the priority level passed to tsleep. Compute priority for
sleep dynamically.
- For SCHED_4BSD, make priority adjustment per-LWP, not per-process.
- Allow aio_suspend() to be ended early by a signal
- Fix reference counting on LIO structures (remove hack)
- Use two global pools for AIO structures
- Minor cleanups
Patch provided by <ad>. Some additional modifications by me.
Reviewed by <yamt>.
from doc/BRANCHES:
idle lwp, and some changes depending on it.
1. separate context switching and thread scheduling.
(cf. gmcgarry_ctxsw)
2. implement idle lwp.
3. clean up related MD/MI interfaces.
4. make scheduler(s) modular.
Please note, that <tech-kern> people should note about
file names before commit. Otherwise, function may fail
with errno set to EDIRTY, and return -1. ;)
