Re: raid5d, page_launder and scheduling latency

Andrew Morton (andrewm@uow.edu.au)
Sun, 15 Jul 2001 02:48:38 +1000


Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > - exit with 1,000 files open
> > - exit with half a million pages to be zapped
> >
> > And "fixing" copy_*_user is outright dumb. Just fix the four
> > or five places where it matters.
>
> Depends if you want to use Linux as a Windows 3.1 replacement or a real OS.
> In the latter case we need to fix the stupid cases too.

umm.. That's what I said :)

Hunt them down and fix them, but don't add hundreds of schedules
all over the tree. gettimeofday(), for heavens sake.
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