Re: Preempt? (was Re: Cannot enable DMA on SATA drive (SCSI-libsata, VIA SATA))

[Jeff Garzik]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 09:52:55PM -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 21:40 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> > And with preempt you're still hiding stuff that needs fixing.  And when 
> > it gets fixed, you don't need preempt.
> > 
> > Therefore, preempt is just a hack that hides stuff that wants fixing anyway.
> 
> This actually sounds like the argument for preempt, and against

As opposed to fixing drivers???  Please fix the drivers and code first.


> sprinkling cond_resched() hacks all over the kernel.

cond_resched() is not the only solution.

	Jeff



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