Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:40:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:40:27 -0500 Received: from griffon.mipsys.com ([217.167.51.129]:12251 "EHLO zion.wanadoo.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:40:26 -0500 Subject: Re: SMP-Linux From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: jamesbuch@iprimus.com.au Cc: "John W. M. Stevens" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200302211645.07356.jamesbuch@iprimus.com.au> References: <001501c2d11a$3ad9c3a0$59951ad3@windows> <005601c2d11f$bfe5e060$59951ad3@windows> <1045762740.12534.110.camel@zion.wanadoo.fr> <200302211645.07356.jamesbuch@iprimus.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1045763580.12533.114.camel@zion.wanadoo.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 20 Feb 2003 18:53:00 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1237 Lines: 31 On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 06:45, James Buchanan wrote: > > Well... how do you think linux actually works ? Did you bother > > _reading_ the code before proposing to do something that is > > basically already there ? :) > > Ah! No, not really. It is not a complete HAL. And no, I didn't read > all the source, I am not sure if anyone can do that very > successfully. I did know there was SMP, yup. Seen it all... > > The sources are very hard to read! Poor design/no design, lack of > documentation, shit documentation from programmers that can't spell, > etc. ;-) Hrm... In your previous mail, you talked about doing a thin layer that gives efficiency. That's exactly what it is. Honestly, you can find crappy code in linux here or there, that's not the problem. I doubt you'll be able to backup your claims very long regarding this specific one which is SMP, especially in 2.5 kernels. But feel free to prove me wrong by actually doing something, then showing us numbers ! Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/