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

Pavel Machek
2002-01-20T19:02:09Z

Hi!

> > hardware to hardware could have a higher priority than normal programs being
> > run. That way they're not preempted by simple programs, it would have to
> > be purposely preempted by the user.
>
> How do you know they are there. How do you detect the situation, or do you
> plan to audit every driver ?

Any driver which depends on timing is broken. 2.4.9 was happy to spend
two seconds in interrupt (console switch). So I doubt too much drivers
are broken like that.

And... The drivers were broken already. That is not reason against the
patch!
Pavel
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