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From: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Preempt? (was Re: Cannot enable DMA on SATA drive (SCSI-libsata, VIA SATA))
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 22:07:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1097028459.5062.104.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041006015515.GA28536@havoc.gtf.org>

On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 21:55 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> As opposed to fixing drivers???  Please fix the drivers and code first.

No, definitely not, dude.  Fixes for anything--drivers include--is never
superseded by anything else, even the eternal quest for "low latency." 

> > sprinkling cond_resched() hacks all over the kernel.
> 
> cond_resched() is not the only solution.

Indeed.  Most other solutions (fixing algorithms, lowering lock hold
time) have "automatic" benefits with kernel preemption, though, and that
has been what I have always advocated.

	Robert Love



  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-06  2:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4136E7EF00073144@mail-3.tiscali.it>
2004-10-06  0:30 ` Cannot enable DMA on SATA drive (SCSI-libsata, VIA SATA) Gianluca Cecchi
2004-10-06  0:54   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06  1:00     ` Preempt? (was Re: Cannot enable DMA on SATA drive (SCSI-libsata, VIA SATA)) Roland Dreier
2004-10-06  1:11       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06  1:28         ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06  1:32           ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06  1:40           ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06  1:52             ` Robert Love
2004-10-06  1:55               ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06  2:02                 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06  2:07                   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06  2:28                     ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06  3:17                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-06  3:27                       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06  3:43                         ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06  3:59                           ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06  4:05                             ` Lee Revell
2004-10-06  4:22                             ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06 15:16                             ` Aleksandar Milivojevic
2004-10-06  4:03                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-06  4:08                           ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06  4:16                             ` Lee Revell
2004-10-06  4:26                             ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06  4:46                             ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-06  6:04                               ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06  6:16                                 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-06 13:38                                   ` Jeff Sipek
2004-10-06  4:12                         ` Lee Revell
2004-10-06  3:34                       ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06  2:07                 ` Robert Love [this message]
2004-10-06  2:30                   ` Nick Piggin

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