In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Dimm
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>"Paul W. Abrahams" wrote:
>>
>> I wonder if Netraverse might arrange to have the kernel mods
>> included in the standard Linux kernel sources. Since the
seems a long shot, for reasons we've discussed before (see below)
>
>I've noticed that disk intensive activity (mysql and file
>moves on big directories) can be noticeably slower when running
>the win4lin kernel even when "win" is not running (750MHz Pentium III
>with EIDE running Mandrake 7.0 with win4lin prebuilt kernel).
>I haven't looked into this much to try to nail down a cause (such
>as difference in hdparm or something) but if this is something
>that is generally true (perhaps to integrate windows file access
>with Linux) I doubt the entire Linux community (i.e. those not
>running win4lin) would want to be stuck with it.
>
'important if true' :-)
but in the first place, if it's a conditional compile feature it should
have zilch effect if not activated in menuconfig, and
I see no patch in that area (ie fs routines, but I haven't looked
carefully for a bit), though there is a 'wedge' in the
return_with_reschedule call-gate (sorry cognoscenti if these are not
quite the right words)
But at the last I can't see the kernel community feeling able to
cooperate with Trelos unless they have a much better idea of what the
modules that are hanging on the kernel hooks are trying to do - they'd
just be doing unpaid guesswork for a commercial organisation otherwise!
> -Bill
--
robert w hall
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