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On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 12:29:02PM +1000, Andrew Morton wrote:
> My patch was quite bogus, of course :(  We can have as many threads as
> we like spinning and the scheduler will cheerfully timeslice between
> them.

Oh ?  I wasn't aware kernel_threads could be rescheduled, unlike normal
kernel code, and in fact I still don't see how they would.