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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Stress testing 2.4.14-pre6
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 12:18:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BE18402.9F958EDC@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111010903280.11617-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Anyway, I seriously doubt this explains any real-world bad behaviour: the
> window for the interrupt hitting a half-way updated list is something like
> two instructions long out of the whole memory freeing path. AND most
> interrupts don't actually do any allocation.

Network Rx interrupts do....  definitely not as frequent as IDE
interrupts, but not infrequent.

-- 
Jeff Garzik      | Only so many songs can be sung
Building 1024    | with two lips, two lungs, and one tongue.
MandrakeSoft     |         - nomeansno

  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-01 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-31 21:57 Stress testing 2.4.14-pre6 Bob Matthews
2001-11-01  0:40 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-01 16:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-11-01 15:41   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-11-01 17:08     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-11-01 17:18       ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2001-11-01 17:29         ` Arjan van de Ven
2001-11-01 18:15         ` Jens Axboe
2001-11-01 18:20           ` Jeff Garzik

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