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From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Scheduler ( was: Just a second ) ...
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On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
>    On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>    > The thing is, I'm personally very suspicious of the "features for that
>    > exclusive 0.1%" mentality.
>
>    Then why do we have sendfile(), or that idiotic sys_readahead() ?
>
> Sending files over sockets are %99 of what most network servers are
> actually doing today, it is much more than 0.1% :-)

The same could be said for AIO, there are a _lot_ of
server programs which are heavily overthreaded because
of a lack of AIO...

cheers,

Rik
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