Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Nov 2001 19:15:22 +0100 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: Stress testing 2.4.14-pre6 |
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On Thu, Nov 01 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Anyway, I seriously doubt this explains any real-world bad behaviour: the > > window for the interrupt hitting a half-way updated list is something like > > two instructions long out of the whole memory freeing path. AND most > > interrupts don't actually do any allocation. > > Network Rx interrupts do.... definitely not as frequent as IDE > interrupts, but not infrequent.
Which IDE interrupts allocate memory?!
-- Jens Axboe
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