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Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 00:33:35 +1100
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Luigi Genoni <kernel@Expansa.sns.it>,
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Subject: Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable
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> So yes, mean latency will decrease with preemptive kernel, but your CPU
> is definitely paying something for it.

And Andrew Morton's work suggests he can do a much better job of
reducing latency than -preempt.

Anton
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