Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable

[Daniel Phillips <phillips _at_ bonn-fries.net>]

On January 12, 2002 07:54 pm, Alan Cox wrote:
> Another example is in the network drivers. The 8390 core for one example
> carefully disables an IRQ on the card so that it can avoid spinlocking on 
> uniprocessor boxes.
> 
> So with pre-empt this happens
> 
> 	driver magic
> 	disable_irq(dev->irq)
	inc task's preempt inhibit

> PRE-EMPT:
> 	[large periods of time running other code]
> PRE-EMPT:
> 	We get back and we've missed 300 packets, the serial port sharing
> 	the IRQ has dropped our internet connection completely.

	We are ok
	dec tasks's preempt inhibit
	jmp if nonzero

--
Daniel
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