On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The only disadvantage to this scheme is the added cost of a kernel
> > thread over a kernel timer. I think this is an ok cost, because this
> > is a low-impact thread that sleeps a lot..
>
> 8K of memory, two tlb flushes, cache misses on the scheduler. The price is
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> actually extremely high.
<confused>
Does it really need non-lazy TLB?
I'm not saying that it's a good idea, but...
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