Re: Feedback on preemptible kernel patch

Daniel Phillips
2001-09-18T08:28:28Z

On September 18, 2001 06:06 am, Dieter Nützel wrote:
> Am Samstag, 15. September 2001 07:14 schrieb Robert Love:
> > On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 00:25, Dieter Nützel wrote:
> > > It seems to be that kswap put some additional "load" on the disk from
> > > time to time. Or is it the ReiserFS thing, again?
> >
> > I don't think its related to ReiserFS.
>
> I think you are right.

They were bounce buffers, meaning they can come from any page cache io, and I
saw at least one report with the same symptoms without the preempt patch. I
don't think it's your problem.

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Daniel