[PATCH RFC] 1/2 central workspace for zlib

[Jörn Engel]

CC List pruned a little.

On Fri, 30 May 2003 23:55:05 -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Jörn Engel <joern at wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
>    
>    How about preemption?  zlib operations take their time, so at least on
>    up, it makes sense to preempt them, when not in softirq context.  Can
>    this still be done lockless?
> 
> You'll need to disable preemption.

My gut feeling claims that this would hurt interactivity.  Con, would
contest on a jffs2 (zlib compressed) filesystem be able to show
interactivity problems wrt zlib?

Jörn

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