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>
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
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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
next prev parent 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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