From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com (Jeff Garzik)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: PATCH: 8139too kernel thread
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 17:59:58 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E13wTKL-000899-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200011102129.QAA13369@havoc.gtf.org> from "Jeff Garzik" at Nov 10, 2000 04:29:51 PM
> 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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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-10 21:29 Jeff Garzik
2000-11-11 0:48 ` Andrew Morton
2000-11-16 17:59 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2000-11-16 18:05 ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-16 18:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-11-16 18:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-16 18:19 ` Alan Cox
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