Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262897AbUCRTm5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2004 14:42:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262898AbUCRTm5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2004 14:42:57 -0500 Received: from ppp-217-133-42-200.cust-adsl.tiscali.it ([217.133.42.200]:49797 "EHLO dualathlon.random") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262897AbUCRTmz (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2004 14:42:55 -0500 Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 20:43:45 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Takashi Iwai Cc: Andrew Morton , mjy@geizhals.at, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: CONFIG_PREEMPT and server workloads Message-ID: <20040318194345.GD2022@dualathlon.random> References: <40591EC1.1060204@geizhals.at> <20040318060358.GC29530@dualathlon.random> <20040318110159.321754d8.akpm@osdl.org> <20040318111807.7fa62340.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key: 1024D/68B9CB43 13D9 8355 295F 4823 7C49 C012 DFA1 686E 68B9 CB43 X-PGP-Key: 1024R/CB4660B9 CC A0 71 81 F4 A0 63 AC C0 4B 81 1D 8C 15 C8 E5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 523 Lines: 11 On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 08:20:17PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > also, the total buffer underrun/overrun problem doesn't happen *so* > often (except for the heavy i/o load, etc). you mean because the disk has not enough bandwidth to read the file, right? (not scheduler related) - 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/