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

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:13:57PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > 
> > > Andrew Morten`s read-latency.patch is a clear winner for me, too.
> > 
> > AFAIK Andrew's code simply adds schedule points around the kernel, right?
> > 
> > If so, nope, I do not plan to integrate it.
> 
> I haven't sent it to you yet :)  It improves the kernel.  That's
> good, isn't it?  (There are already forty or fifty open-coded
> rescheduling points in the kernel.  That patch just adds the
> missing (and most important) ten).  

yes, only make sure not to add live locks.

> reviewable place - submit_bh().  However that won't prevent

agreed, I also merged this part of mini-ll in 18pre2aa1 infact.

Andrea