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

Arjan van de Ven
2002-01-14T08:26:30Z

On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 06:03:43AM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> Sorry, that's incorrect. I stated why earlier in this thread and akpm signed
> off on it. With preempt you get ASAP (i.e., as soon as the outermost
> spinlock is done) process scheduling. With hand-coded scheduling points you
> get 'as soon as it happens to hit a scheduling point'.
>
> That is not the only benefit, just the most obvious one.

Big duh. So you get there 1 usec sooner. NOBODY will notice that. NOBODY.