On January 15, 2002 01:39 pm, yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
> My reservation about preemption as an implementation technique is that
> it has costs, which seem to be not easily boundable, but not very
> clear benefits.
To me the benefit is clear enough: ASAP scheduling of IO threads, a simple
heuristic that improves both throughput and latency.
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