Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] enable PREEMPT_BKL on !PREEMPT+SMP too | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Thu, 26 May 2005 12:27:46 -0400 |
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On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 13:17 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > It might introduce > performance regressions as well, if any performance-critical code uses > the BKL heavily and gets overscheduled due to the semaphore. I very much > hope there is no such performance-critical codepath left though.
A write-intensive benchmark on a reiser3 FS is probably a good place to start testing.
Lee
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