Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Jan 2002 08:43:44 -0700 | From | yodaiken@fsmlabs ... | Subject | Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable |
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On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 04:38:59PM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On January 15, 2002 01:39 pm, yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote: > > My reservation about preemption as an implementation technique is that > > it has costs, which seem to be not easily boundable, but not very > > clear benefits. > > To me the benefit is clear enough: ASAP scheduling of IO threads, a simple > heuristic that improves both throughput and latency.
I think of "benefit", perhaps naiively, in terms of something that can be measured or demonstrated rather than just announced.
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