[PATCH RFC] 1/2 central workspace for zlib

Sat May 31 05:09:19 EDT 2003

On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 09:56, Jörn Engel wrote:
> 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. 

the code is decompressing data that was 4096 bytes originally. I doubt
that will be anything close to some real wallclock time nowadays....
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