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Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 02:48:38 +1000
From: Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: raid5d, page_launder and scheduling latency
In-Reply-To: <3B50765F.6ECF7B17@uow.edu.au> from "Andrew Morton" at Jul 15, 2001 02:42:07 AM <E15LSW7-0001QO-00@the-village.bc.nu>
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Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > - exit with 1,000 files open
> > - exit with half a million pages to be zapped
> >
> > And "fixing" copy_*_user is outright dumb.  Just fix the four
> > or five places where it matters.
> 
> Depends if you want to use Linux as a Windows 3.1 replacement or a real OS.
> In the latter case we need to fix the stupid cases too.

umm..  That's what I said :)

Hunt them down and fix them, but don't add hundreds of schedules
all over the tree.  gettimeofday(), for heavens sake.
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