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Re: revivesa status 2008/07/09



On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:07:34AM -0700, Gary Thorpe wrote: The advantages

> of SA are supposed to be on *I/O* bound workloads because it can reduce
> overhead due to kernel context switches by doing userland switches where
> appropriate (according to previous benchmarks, research etc.), but I could
> be wron on this.

No. In fact, it adds overhead to I/O bound workloads.

Andrew


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