From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:30:26 +0100
> disk I/O is typically not CPU bound, and i believe these TCP tests /are/ > CPU-bound. Otherwise there would be no expiry of the timeslice to begin > with and the TCP receiver task would always be boosted to 'interactive' > status by the scheduler and would happily chug along at 500 mbits ... It's about the prioritization of the work. If all disk I/O were shut off and frozen while we copy file data into userspace, you'd see the same problem for disk I/O. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
