Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable | Date | Mon, 21 Jan 2002 16:38:59 +0100 |
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On January 15, 2002 01:39 pm, yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote: > My reservation about preemption as an implementation technique is that > it has costs, which seem to be not easily boundable, but not very > clear benefits.
To me the benefit is clear enough: ASAP scheduling of IO threads, a simple heuristic that improves both throughput and latency.
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