From: Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>, Mike Black <mblack@csihq.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: raid5d, page_launder and scheduling latency
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 02:48:38 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B5077E6.19965DCC@uow.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B50765F.6ECF7B17@uow.edu.au> from "Andrew Morton" at Jul 15, 2001 02:42:07 AM <E15LSW7-0001QO-00@the-village.bc.nu>
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > - exit with 1,000 files open
> > - exit with half a million pages to be zapped
> >
> > And "fixing" copy_*_user is outright dumb. Just fix the four
> > or five places where it matters.
>
> Depends if you want to use Linux as a Windows 3.1 replacement or a real OS.
> In the latter case we need to fix the stupid cases too.
umm.. That's what I said :)
Hunt them down and fix them, but don't add hundreds of schedules
all over the tree. gettimeofday(), for heavens sake.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-14 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-14 16:29 Andrew Morton
2001-07-14 16:34 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-14 16:42 ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-14 16:43 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-14 16:48 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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