Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Nov 1999 12:48:49 -0800 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: PATCH 2.3.26: kmalloc GFP_ZERO |
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From: yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 12:55:58 -0700
> the idle task will be less fast in rescheduling itself.
Why?
He's trying to say that if you're zero'ing pages in the idle loop, the latency between checks of current->need_resched will be longer. I think he's overestimating the cost of zero'ing a single page.
Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com
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