Re: Scheduler ( was: Just a second ) ...
Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Thu, 20 Dec 2001 09:29:28 -0200 (BRST)
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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