Re: RSDL-mm 0.28

Matt Mackall
2007-03-11T04:15:35Z

On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:01:32PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 01:28:22PM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > Ok I don't think there's any actual accounting problem here per se
> > (although I did just recently post a bugfix for rsdl however I think
> > that's unrelated). What I think is going on in the ccache testcase is
> > that all the work is being offloaded to kernel threads reading/writing
> > to/from the filesystem and the make is not getting any actual cpu
> > time.
>
> I don't see significant system time while this is happening.

Also, it's running pretty much entirely out of page cache so there
wouldn't be a whole lot for kernel threads to do.

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