Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 01 Nov 2001 13:20:08 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Stress testing 2.4.14-pre6 |
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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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