Re: PATCH: 8139too kernel thread

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Nov 16 2000 - 12:59:58 EST


> 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.

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