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Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 19:15:22 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
        Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
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Subject: Re: Stress testing 2.4.14-pre6
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On Thu, Nov 01 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Anyway, I seriously doubt this explains any real-world bad behaviour: the
> > window for the interrupt hitting a half-way updated list is something like
> > two instructions long out of the whole memory freeing path. AND most
> > interrupts don't actually do any allocation.
> 
> Network Rx interrupts do....  definitely not as frequent as IDE
> interrupts, but not infrequent.

Which IDE interrupts allocate memory?!

-- 
Jens Axboe

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