Re: [PATCH RFC] 1/2 central workspace for zlib

[Arjan van de Ven]

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On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 09:56, J=C3=B6rn Engel wrote:
> CC List pruned a little.
>=20
> On Fri, 30 May 2003 23:55:05 -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> >    From: J=C3=B6rn Engel <[e-mail]>
> >   =20
> >    How about preemption?  zlib operations take their time, so at least =
on
> >    up, it makes sense to preempt them, when not in softirq context.  Ca=
n
> >    this still be done lockless?
> >=20
> > You'll need to disable preemption.
>=20
> My gut feeling claims that this would hurt interactivity.=20

the code is decompressing data that was 4096 bytes originally. I doubt
that will be anything close to some real wallclock time nowadays....

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