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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC] 1/2 central workspace for zlib
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On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 09:56, Jörn Engel wrote:
> CC List pruned a little.
>
> On Fri, 30 May 2003 23:55:05 -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> > From: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
> >
> > How about preemption? zlib operations take their time, so at least on
> > up, it makes sense to preempt them, when not in softirq context. Can
> > this still be done lockless?
> >
> > You'll need to disable preemption.
>
> My gut feeling claims that this would hurt interactivity.

the code is decompressing data that was 4096 bytes originally. I doubt
that will be anything close to some real wallclock time nowadays....
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