Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:03:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:03:39 -0500 Received: from lacrosse.corp.redhat.com ([12.107.208.154]:50412 "EHLO lacrosse.corp.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:03:29 -0500 Message-ID: <3C42F33C.88F423F6@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:03:24 +0000 From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com Organization: Red Hat, Inc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-13smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "J.A. Magallon" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable In-Reply-To: <20020114104532.59950d86.skraw@ithnet.com>; from skraw@ithnet.com on lun ene 14 2002 at 10:45:32 +0100 <20020114160256.A2922@werewolf.able.es> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "J.A. Magallon" wrote: > > On 20020114 Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > > > >Hm, obviously the ll-patches look simple, but their pure required number makes > >me think they are as well stupid as simple. This whole story looks like making > >an old mac do real multitasking, just spread around scheduling points > > Yup. That remind me of... > Would there be any kernel call every driver is doing just to hide there > a conditional_schedule() so everyone does it even without knowledge of it ? > Just like Apple put the SystemTask() inside GetNextEvent()... Well the preempt patch sort of does this in every spin_unlock*() ..... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/