Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Apr 1998 23:00:14 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: new kmod.c - debuggers and testers needed |
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Hi,
On Tue, 14 Apr 1998 20:02:09 +0200 (MET DST), Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl> said:
> On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Perry Harrington wrote: >> Threads >> are useful in their appropriate context, and kswapd, and kmod would benefit >> from them.
> Hmm, maybe it would be useful for kswapd and bdflush to fork() > off threads to do the actual disk I/O, so the main thread won't > be blocked and paused... This could remove some bottlenecks.
bdflush does nothing except IO, so there's no real reason to twin-thread it. kswapd does indeed benefit from a separate IO thread, and I've already got patches which implement a kswiod for IO and a kswapd for page scanning. I'll post them once I've got them ready against the latest kernel: my current patches for this code are pretty old.
--Stephen
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