Re: [PATCH] sched: Fixadverse effects of NFS client on interactive response

From: Trond Myklebust
Date: Fri Dec 23 2005 - 16:25:23 EST


On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 16:17 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 22:08 +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 14:07 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> >
> > > By your logic it's also broken to use cond_resched() in filesystem code.
> >
> > ...and your point is?
>
> Reductio ad absurdum. Subsystems not using cond_resched would render
> Linux unusable for even trivial soft realtime applications like AV
> playback and recording.

It may surprise you to learn that some people don't use their computers
for AV playback and recording. However absurd it may seem to you, those
people are quite happy to use 2.4.x kernels without a cond_resched
lurking in every nook and cranny.

Trond

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