Re: Perforamnce comparison between 2.3.8 and 2.2.10

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Tue, 29 Jun 1999 02:30:36 +0200 (CEST)


On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Rudolf Leitgeb wrote:

>If the fs is single threaded, I assume that it's protected by some form
>of lock, and every process that waits for I/O will sleep, i.e. not accumulate

We was talking about the big kernel lock.

>more time in the CPU. Even if the fs code was protected by a spin lock, this
>would only show up in the system time, not in the user time ...

yes (at least theorically).

Andrea

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