On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 04:50:05PM +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > Generally, reading from memory takes time because the CPU has to wait, > writing is free since it can be deferred in the cache (in theory > indefinitly) until there's free cycle. I'm not sure I'd call that "free" -- executing the instructions for the write has a non-zero cost. Still, it is significantly cheaper than the read... John -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
