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Re: new kmod.c - debuggers and testers needed

To: Perry Harrington <pedward@sun4.apsoft.com>
Subject: Re: new kmod.c - debuggers and testers needed
From: Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 20:02:09 +0200 (MET DST)
cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
In-Reply-To: <199804080001.RAA23780@sun4.apsoft.com>
Reply-To: H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl
Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org

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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