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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 20:02:56 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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To: Cort Dougan <cort@fsmlabs.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] lockless, scalable get_pid(), for_each_process()
 elimination, 2.5.35-BK
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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.

sorry, but creating a new thread within some realistic time limit,
independently of how all the other threads are layed out, is not something
i'd give up trying to solve.

	Ingo

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