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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
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On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 03:38:00PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> Larry McVoy wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 03:15:37PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> > > The quality of the networking code in Linux is quite excellent.  There's
> > > some scaling problems relative to NetWare.  We are firmly committed to
> > > getting something out with a Linux code base and NetWare metrics.  Love
> > > to have your help.
> > 
> > Jeff, I'm a little concerned with some of your statements.  Netware may
> > be the greatest thing since sliced bread, but it isn't a full operating
> > system, so comparing it to Linux is sort of meaningless.
> 
> It's makes more money in a week than Linux has ever made.  

And the relevance of that to this conversation is exactly what?

> A context switch in anoperating system context in it's simplest for is
> 
> mov    x, esp
> mov    esp, y
> 
> > and you can support all that and get user to user context switches in a
					 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Apology accepted.

No apology was extended.  You're spouting nonsense.  User to user means
process A in VM 1 switching to process B in VM 2.  I'm sorry, Mr Merkey,
but a 

	mov    x, esp
	mov    esp, y

doesn't begin to approach a user to user context switch.  Please go learn
what a user to user context switch is.  Then come back when you can do
one of those in a few cycles.
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Larry McVoy            	 lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitmover.com/lm 
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