Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:03:24 +0000 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable |
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"J.A. Magallon" wrote: > > On 20020114 Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > > > >Hm, obviously the ll-patches look simple, but their pure required number makes > >me think they are as well stupid as simple. This whole story looks like making > >an old mac do real multitasking, just spread around scheduling points > > Yup. That remind me of... > Would there be any kernel call every driver is doing just to hide there > a conditional_schedule() so everyone does it even without knowledge of it ? > Just like Apple put the SystemTask() inside GetNextEvent()...
Well the preempt patch sort of does this in every spin_unlock*() ..... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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