Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 13 May 2001 21:59:20 +0200 | From | "J . A . Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] eliminate a truckload of context switches |
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On 05.13 Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 8 May 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > While running a ktrace enabled kernel (IKD), I noticed many useless > > context switches. The problem is that we continually pester kswapd/ > > kflushd at times when they can't do anything other than go back to > > sleep. As you'll see below, we do this quite a bit under heavy load. > > I agree, both with your analysis that the context switches > aren't needed and with the patch you sent to fix it. > > Linus, if it isn't in the kernel yet, please put it in... >
If it matters, I have been running it on 2.4.4-ac8 and works fine...
-- J.A. Magallon # Let the source be with you... mailto:jamagallon@able.es Linux Mandrake release 8.1 (Cooker) for i586 Linux werewolf 2.4.4-ac8 #1 SMP Sat May 12 01:16:37 CEST 2001 i686
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