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Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 13:20:08 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> 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?!

Sorry, I meant as in, IDE interrupts occur more frequently than Rx
interrupts.

English is my first language... really.

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