From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from max.fys.ruu.nl (max.fys.ruu.nl [131.211.32.73]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA10332 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 16:02:57 -0400 Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 20:02:09 +0200 (MET DST) From: Rik van Riel Reply-To: H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl Subject: Re: new kmod.c - debuggers and testers needed In-Reply-To: <199804080001.RAA23780@sun4.apsoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Perry Harrington Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm List-ID: 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. +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------+ | Linux: - LinuxHQ MM-patches page | Scouting webmaster | | - kswapd ask-him & complain-to guy | Vries cubscout leader | | http://www.fys.ruu.nl/~riel/ | | +-------------------------------------------+--------------------------+