Re: new kmod.c - debuggers and testers needed

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl)
Tue, 14 Apr 1998 20:02:09 +0200 (MET DST)


On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Perry Harrington wrote:

> Threads
> are useful in their appropriate context, and kswapd, and kmod would benefit
> from them.

Hmm, maybe it would be useful for kswapd and bdflush to fork()
off threads to do the actual disk I/O, so the main thread won't
be blocked and paused... This could remove some bottlenecks.

Rik.
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