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FromCon Kolivas <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC] 1/2 central workspace for zlib
DateSat, 31 May 2003 18:22:21 +1000
On Sat, 31 May 2003 17:56, Jörn Engel wrote:
> CC List pruned a little.
>
> 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?

The only way I could think of was perhaps using a load on another disk 
(io_other which is in contest) that is using jffs2 when the contest baseline 
is running on a normal filesystem - this has shown very little differences 
between filesystems normally. Otherwise if everything in contest is run on 
jffs2 it would affect every layer and hard to be sure you had a control to 
compare with.

Con
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