Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 31 May 2003 09:56:15 +0200 | | From | Jörn Engel <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC] 1/2 central workspace for zlib |
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On Fri, 30 May 2003 23:55:05 -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> > > How about preemption? zlib operations take their time, so at least on > up, it makes sense to preempt them, when not in softirq context. Can > this still be done lockless? > > You'll need to disable preemption.
My gut feeling claims that this would hurt interactivity. Con, would contest on a jffs2 (zlib compressed) filesystem be able to show interactivity problems wrt zlib?
Jörn
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