From: Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl>
To: Perry Harrington <pedward@sun4.apsoft.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: new kmod.c - debuggers and testers needed
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 20:02:09 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.980414200024.1070J-100000@mirkwood.dummy.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199804080001.RAA23780@sun4.apsoft.com>
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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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <199804080001.RAA23780@sun4.apsoft.com>
1998-04-14 18:02 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
1998-04-14 21:27 ` Perry Harrington
1998-04-14 22:58 ` Kswapd future (was: Re: new kmod.c - debuggers and testers needed) Rik van Riel
1998-04-14 23:13 ` new kmod.c - debuggers and testers needed Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
1998-04-20 22:00 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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