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

From: Lee Revell
Date: Tue Oct 05 2004 - 23:15:07 EST


On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 23:27, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> If users and developers are presented with the _impression_ that long
> latency code paths don't exist

Users do not care whether some "long latency code path" exists in
theory. They only notice results. The developer part of your argument
is valid though.

Lee

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