Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262938AbVDHTpo (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2005 15:45:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262939AbVDHTpo (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2005 15:45:44 -0400 Received: from relay1.tiscali.de ([62.26.116.129]:61686 "EHLO webmail.tiscali.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262940AbVDHTot (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2005 15:44:49 -0400 Message-ID: <4256DF27.5060607@tiscali.de> Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 21:44:39 +0200 From: Matthias-Christian Ott User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050406) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Andrea Arcangeli , Chris Wedgwood , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Kernel SCM saga.. References: <20050408041341.GA8720@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20050408071428.GB3957@opteron.random> <4256AE0D.201@tiscali.de> <4256BE7D.5040308@tiscali.de> <4256D87C.5090207@tiscali.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1364 Lines: 44 Linus Torvalds wrote: >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? > > > But they're slower because there're some instances checking them. >>I hope my idea/opinion is clear now. >> >> > >Numbers talk. I've got something that you can test ;) > > This doesn't mean it's better just because you had the time develope it ;). But anyhow the folk needs something, they can test to see if it's good or not, most don't believe in concepts. > Linus > > > We will see which solutions wins the "race". But I think you're solutions will "win", because you're Linus Torvalds -- the "Boss" of Linux and have to work with this system very day (usualy people are using what they have developed :)) -- and I have not the time develop a database based solution (maybe someone else is interested in developing it). Matthias-Christian - 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/