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

Arjan van de Ven
2002-01-14T15:03:50Z

"J.A. Magallon" wrote:
>
> On 20020114 Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> >
> >Hm, obviously the ll-patches look simple, but their pure required number makes
> >me think they are as well stupid as simple. This whole story looks like making
> >an old mac do real multitasking, just spread around scheduling points
>
> Yup. That remind me of...
> Would there be any kernel call every driver is doing just to hide there
> a conditional_schedule() so everyone does it even without knowledge of it ?
> Just like Apple put the SystemTask() inside GetNextEvent()...

Well the preempt patch sort of does this in every spin_unlock*() .....