Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 16:02:56 +0100 | From | "J.A. Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable |
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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()...
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