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Re: PATCH: 8139too kernel thread

To: jgarzik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jeff Garzik)
Subject: Re: PATCH: 8139too kernel thread
From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 17:59:58 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <200011102129.QAA13369@havoc.gtf.org> from "Jeff Garzik" at Nov 10, 2000 04:29:51 PM
Sender: owner-netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> The only disadvantage to this scheme is the added cost of a kernel
> thread over a kernel timer.  I think this is an ok cost, because this
> is a low-impact thread that sleeps a lot..

8K of memory, two tlb flushes, cache misses on the scheduler. The price is
actually extremely high.


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