Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable

Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-09T10:34:30Z

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:13:57PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> >
> > > Andrew Morten`s read-latency.patch is a clear winner for me, too.
> >
> > AFAIK Andrew's code simply adds schedule points around the kernel, right?
> >
> > If so, nope, I do not plan to integrate it.
>
> I haven't sent it to you yet :) It improves the kernel. That's
> good, isn't it? (There are already forty or fifty open-coded
> rescheduling points in the kernel. That patch just adds the
> missing (and most important) ten).

yes, only make sure not to add live locks.

> reviewable place - submit_bh(). However that won't prevent

agreed, I also merged this part of mini-ll in 18pre2aa1 infact.

Andrea