Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Aug 2003 08:47:40 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] O13int for interactivity |
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On Tuesday 05 August 2003 06:32, Nick Piggin wrote: >> But by employing the kernel's services in the shape of a blocking >> syscall, all sleeps are intentional.
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 02:48:09AM -0400, Rob Landley wrote: > Wrong. Some sleeps indicate "I have run out of stuff to do right now, I'm > going to wait for a timer or another process or something to wake me up with > new work". > Some sleeps indicate "ideally this would run on an enormous ramdisk attached > to gigabit ethernet, but hard drives and internet connections are just too > slow so my true CPU-hogness is hidden by the fact I'm running on a PC instead > of a mainframe." > There is are "I have nothing to do right now, and I'm okay with that" sleeps, > and there are "I have requested more work, and it should hurry up and get > here" sleeps.
Perhaps more apps should use aio.
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