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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 14:43:06 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Cort Dougan <cort@fsmlabs.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] lockless, scalable get_pid(), for_each_process()
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On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Cort Dougan wrote:

> It's also not a bad idea to sometimes say "Linux cannot do that".
> Trying to make the system do _everything_ will result in it doing many
> things very poorly.

That's been tried before, but for some reason people just won't
listen and Linux ended up running on non-x86 machines and even SMP.

I don't see any reason to rule out a fix for this problem in
principle, maybe somebody will come up with code that Linus does
like ?

cheers,

Rik
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