Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:04:01 +0000 (GMT)

> That's true, but at some point in the future I think the work involved
> in making sure all new additional kernel code and all new intra-kernel
> interactions are "tuned" becomes larger than going preemptive all the
> way down.

It makes no difference to the kernel the work is the same in all cases
because you cannot pre-empt while holding a lock. Therefore you have to do
all the lock analysis anyway
-
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/