Le mercredi 07 mai 2008 à 22:10 +0200, Jan Engelhardt a écrit :
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> >I.e., could unlink do the directory changes and then hand off the rest of the
> >task to a kernel thread?
> 
> Say you had one realtime application running that would do lots of new
> writes after the unlink finished. When the unlink is put into the
> background, you interleave the unlink operation with new writes,
> probably causing needless seeks and therefore not hitting the deadlines
> anymore.

Why ? The writes are delayed, so could be the unlink operations.

	Xav


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