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

Daniel Phillips (phillips@bonn-fries.net)
Mon, 21 Jan 2002 16:38:59 +0100

On January 15, 2002 01:39 pm, yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
> My reservation about preemption as an implementation technique is that
> it has costs, which seem to be not easily boundable, but not very
> clear benefits.

To me the benefit is clear enough: ASAP scheduling of IO threads, a simple
heuristic that improves both throughput and latency.

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Daniel
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