Re: Scheduler ( was: Just a second ) ...

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Wed, 19 Dec 2001 21:39:56 -0800 (PST)


From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 01:50:36 -0200 (BRST)

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> The thing is, I'm personally very suspicious of the "features for that
> exclusive 0.1%" mentality.

Then why do we have sendfile(), or that idiotic sys_readahead() ?

Sending files over sockets are %99 of what most network servers are
actually doing today, it is much more than 0.1% :-)
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