Re: Stress testing 2.4.14-pre6

Arjan van de Ven (arjanv@redhat.com)
Thu, 01 Nov 2001 17:29:27 +0000


Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Anyway, I seriously doubt this explains any real-world bad behaviour: the
> > window for the interrupt hitting a half-way updated list is something like
> > two instructions long out of the whole memory freeing path. AND most
> > interrupts don't actually do any allocation.
>
> Network Rx interrupts do.... definitely not as frequent as IDE
> interrupts, but not infrequent.

Cerberus doesn't use networking in the tested setup iirc
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