K 10 svn:author V 4 jeff K 8 svn:date V 27 2008-04-17T09:56:01.000000Z K 7 svn:log V 442 - Add a metric to describe how busy a processor has been over the last two ticks by counting the number of switches and the load when sched_clock() is called. - If the busy metric exceeds a threshold allow the idle thread to spin waiting for new work for a brief period to avoid using IPIs. This reduces the cost on the sender and receiver as well as reducing wakeup latency considerably when it works. Sponsored by: Nokia END