Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262935AbVDHTaW (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2005 15:30:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262937AbVDHTaW (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2005 15:30:22 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:13959 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262935AbVDHTaS (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2005 15:30:18 -0400 Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 12:32:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Matthias-Christian Ott cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Chris Wedgwood , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Kernel SCM saga.. In-Reply-To: <4256D87C.5090207@tiscali.de> Message-ID: References: <20050408041341.GA8720@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20050408071428.GB3957@opteron.random> <4256AE0D.201@tiscali.de> <4256BE7D.5040308@tiscali.de> <4256D87C.5090207@tiscali.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 662 Lines: 20 On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: > > But as mentioned you need to _open_ each file (It doesn't matter if it's > cached (this speeds up only reading it) -- you need a _slow_ system call > and _very slow_ hardware access anyway). Nope. System calls aren't slow. What crappy OS are you running? > I hope my idea/opinion is clear now. Numbers talk. I've got something that you can test ;) Linus - 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/