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From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: jmorris@intercode.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] 1/2 central workspace for zlib
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 09:56:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030531075615.GA25089@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030530.235505.23020750.davem@redhat.com>

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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.  Con, would
contest on a jffs2 (zlib compressed) filesystem be able to show
interactivity problems wrt zlib?

Jörn

-- 
Do not stop an army on its way home.
-- Sun Tzu

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From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: jmorris@intercode.com.au, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] 1/2 central workspace for zlib
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 09:56:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030531075615.GA25089@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030530.235505.23020750.davem@redhat.com>

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.  Con, would
contest on a jffs2 (zlib compressed) filesystem be able to show
interactivity problems wrt zlib?

Jörn

-- 
Do not stop an army on its way home.
-- Sun Tzu

  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-31  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-30 14:49 [PATCH RFC] 1/2 central workspace for zlib Jörn Engel
2003-05-30 14:49 ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-30 15:29 ` James Morris
2003-05-30 15:29   ` James Morris
2003-05-30 17:43   ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-30 17:43     ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-31  0:14     ` David S. Miller
2003-05-31  0:14       ` David S. Miller
2003-05-31  6:48       ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-31  6:48         ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-31  6:55         ` David S. Miller
2003-05-31  6:55           ` David S. Miller
2003-05-31  7:56           ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2003-05-31  7:56             ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-31  7:59             ` David S. Miller
2003-05-31  7:59               ` David S. Miller
2003-05-31  8:11               ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-31  8:11                 ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-31  8:12                 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-31  8:12                   ` David S. Miller
2003-05-31  8:22             ` Con Kolivas
2003-05-31  8:22               ` Con Kolivas
2003-06-01  1:25               ` Matt Mackall
2003-06-01  1:25                 ` Matt Mackall
2003-06-02 12:19                 ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-02 12:19                   ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-31  9:09             ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-05-31  9:09               ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-05-31  6:20   ` David S. Miller
2003-05-31  6:20     ` David S. Miller
2003-05-31 10:51     ` James Morris
2003-05-31 10:51       ` James Morris
2003-05-31 11:07       ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-31 11:07         ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-31 15:44 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2003-06-02 12:26   ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-02 13:03     ` Joakim Tjernlund
2003-06-02 13:32       ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-02 15:15 ` matsunaga
2003-06-02 15:15   ` matsunaga
2003-06-02 15:36   ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-02 15:36     ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-02 15:40     ` David Woodhouse
2003-06-02 15:40       ` David Woodhouse
2003-06-02 15:53       ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-02 15:53         ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-02 15:59         ` David Woodhouse
2003-06-02 15:59           ` David Woodhouse
2003-06-02 16:37           ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-02 16:37             ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-02 19:36             ` David Woodhouse
2003-06-02 19:36               ` David Woodhouse
2003-06-02 20:54               ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-02 20:54                 ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-02 16:07     ` matsunaga
2003-06-02 16:07       ` matsunaga

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