Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:27:31 +0400 | From | Alexey Kuznetsov <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Convert all tasklets to workqueues |
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Hello!
> Not a very accurate measurement (jiffies that is).
Believe me or not, but the measurement has nanosecond precision.
> Since the work queue *is* a thread, you are running a busy loop here. Even > though you call schedule, this thread still may have quota available, and > will not yeild to the work queue. Unless ofcourse this caller is of lower > priority. But even then, I'm not sure how quickly the schedule would > choose the work queue.
Instantly. That's why cnt is printed. Unless cnt==1000000, the result is invalid.
> get it into -mm) But the thing was is that tasklets IMHO are over used.
You preach to a choir. :-)
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