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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH] dm: Remove dm_bufio_cond_resched()
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On Fri, 2016-09-23 at 14:26 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 02:17:10PM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Fri, 2016-09-23 at 10:00 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >
> > > > Is anybody still using PREEMPT_NONE? Most workloads also care
> > > > about
> > > > latency to some extend. Lots of code has explicit
> > > > cond_resched() and
> > > > doesn't worry.
> > >
> > > Dunno. But I bet there are workloads which love it.
> >
> > SUSE definitely uses it. I had presumed that was enterprise
> > standard.
>
> Hmm, I thought most distros defaulted to PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY.

I use PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY for my desktop, that offering much better
performance than the PREEMPT desktop targeted kernels (ick), but
workhorses run PREEMPT_NONE for maximum throughput.

-Mike

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