Polling and kern.polling.idle_poll

[Larry Baird]

> just to understand -- the patch below is just cosmetics to avoid
> seeing the polling thread appear as "SYS" time, right ?
Yes.  Another fix would be to have the idle thread call poll_idle() like
it did in 4.x.  The comment for P_NOLOAD says
	/* Ignore during load avg calculations. */
Looking at the threads that set P_NOLOAD, all of them are appear to
do minimal work.  Both idle_poll() and vm_page_zero_idle() used
to be called by the idle process.  Mapping them back to the idle
process seems reasonable to me.

Larry


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