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SubjectRe: Stress testing 2.4.14-pre6
Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 01 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > Anyway, I seriously doubt this explains any real-world bad behaviour: the
> > > window for the interrupt hitting a half-way updated list is something like
> > > two instructions long out of the whole memory freeing path. AND most
> > > interrupts don't actually do any allocation.
> >
> > Network Rx interrupts do.... definitely not as frequent as IDE
> > interrupts, but not infrequent.
>
> Which IDE interrupts allocate memory?!

Sorry, I meant as in, IDE interrupts occur more frequently than Rx
interrupts.

English is my first language... really.

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