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

Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-09T14:29:19Z

On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 09:07:55AM -0500, Ed Sweetman wrote:
> Ok so the medicine is worse than the disease. I take it that you only want
> some key points made for rescheduling instead of the full preempt patch by
> Robert. That seems logical enough. The only issue i see is that for the

My ideal is to have the kernel to be as low worst latency as -preempt,
but without being preemptive. that's possible to achieve, I don't think
we're that far.

mean latency is another matter, but I personally don't mind about mean
latency and I much prefer to save cpu cycles instead.

Andrea