On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 03:43:15PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> *no*. There are places in the kernel that do work for millisecs while
> holding a spinlock. This causes millisec latencies even if we had a
The interesting question here is "why"? The only example ever discussed
here was copying data on big reads/writes and this seems like a classic
case of where the algorithm needs to be fixed -- if you have a millisecond
copy then you almost certainly would benefit from kiobufs or something smart.
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