Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2002 08:24:45 +0000 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable |
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 06:03:43AM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote: > Sorry, that's incorrect. I stated why earlier in this thread and akpm signed > off on it. With preempt you get ASAP (i.e., as soon as the outermost > spinlock is done) process scheduling. With hand-coded scheduling points you > get 'as soon as it happens to hit a scheduling point'. > > That is not the only benefit, just the most obvious one.
Big duh. So you get there 1 usec sooner. NOBODY will notice that. NOBODY. - 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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