Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:37:16 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@unixdaemons.com>, Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slab allocator Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0202271333340.97278-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <3C7D482B.984F6FE7@mindspring.com>
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On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > This is ridiculous: > > 1) Kernel preemption should *never* result in CPU > migration. why not? "should not"" or "can't"? "shouldn't" can be argued either way, and "can't" is easily proven false. > > 2) Allocations at interrupt level are an extreme > special case, and should be handled as a special > case, so as not to damage the performance of the > common case. that's a whole different (design) issue. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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