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

J.A. Magallon (jamagallon@able.es)
Mon, 14 Jan 2002 16:02:56 +0100

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()...

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J.A. Magallon                           #  Let the source be with you...        
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