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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 08:24:45 +0000
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@fenrus.demon.nl>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 06:03:43AM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> Sorry, that's incorrect.  I stated why earlier in this thread and akpm signed 
> off on it.  With preempt you get ASAP (i.e., as soon as the outermost 
> spinlock is done) process scheduling.  With hand-coded scheduling points you 
> get 'as soon as it happens to hit a scheduling point'.
> 
> That is not the only benefit, just the most obvious one.

Big duh. So you get there 1 usec sooner. NOBODY will notice that. NOBODY.
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