Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable | Date | Sat, 12 Jan 2002 20:09:08 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> hardware to hardware could have a higher priority than normal programs being > run. That way they're not preempted by simple programs, it would have to > be purposely preempted by the user.
How do you know they are there. How do you detect the situation, or do you plan to audit every driver ?
> Lowering the latency, sure the low latency code probably does nearly as well > as the preempt patch. that's fine. Shortening the time locks are held by
Not nearly as well. The tests I've seen it runs _better_ than just pre-empt and pre-empt + low latency is the same as pure low latency - 1mS
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