Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750742AbVJBWnS (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2005 18:43:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750751AbVJBWnS (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2005 18:43:18 -0400 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:39819 "EHLO pd2mo1so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750742AbVJBWnR (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2005 18:43:17 -0400 Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 16:43:11 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: what's next for the linux kernel? In-reply-to: <4TiWy-4HQ-3@gated-at.bofh.it> To: linux-kernel Message-id: <4340627F.6010303@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <4TiWy-4HQ-3@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 876 Lines: 22 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > and, what is the linux kernel? > > it's a daft, monolithic design that is suitable and faster on > single-processor systems, and that design is going to look _really_ > outdated, really soon. Well, it sounds like it works pretty well on such things as 512 CPU Altix systems, so it sounds like the suggestion that Linux is designed solely for single-processor systems and isn't suitable for multicore, hyperthreaded CPUs doesn't hold much water.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - 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/