Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: PATCH: 8139too kernel thread | Date | Thu, 16 Nov 2000 17:59:58 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> The only disadvantage to this scheme is the added cost of a kernel > thread over a kernel timer. I think this is an ok cost, because this > is a low-impact thread that sleeps a lot..
8K of memory, two tlb flushes, cache misses on the scheduler. The price is actually extremely high.
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