Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call

From: yodaiken@fsmlabs.com
Date: Mon Feb 24 2003 - 11:17:58 EST


On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 12:50:31AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> Bill Huey (Hui) <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org> wrote:
> >> especially given some of the IO performance improvement that
> >> happened as a courtesy of preempt.
>
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 12:40:05AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > There is no evidence for any such thing. Nor has any plausible
> > theory been put forward as to why such an improvement should occur.
>
> There's a vague notion in my head that it should decrease scheduling

Vague notions seems to be the level of data on this topic.

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