Re: [User-mode-linux-user] security ??

[lars b. <la...@no...>]

Jeff Dike <jd...@ka...> writes:
> > and the idle thread tends to soak up a lot of CPU time
> It busy-waits, just like any normal idle thread.  I'm planning on using the 
> kernel's APM support to turn the busy-waiting into sleeping.  This will make 
> uml put a lower load on the system.

In Linux/a386, I just replaced the asm("hlt") with a386_interrupt_wait(),
which sleeps until woken up by a signal or until the next timer interrupt
(aka SIGTVALRM) would have occurred.