Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751167AbVJCQcy (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 12:32:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751168AbVJCQcy (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 12:32:54 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:42114 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751169AbVJCQcy (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 12:32:54 -0400 Message-Id: <200510031632.j93GWZbY012554@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.1-RC3 To: Horst von Brand Cc: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton , Vadim Lobanov , Rik van Riel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: what's next for the linux kernel? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 Oct 2005 22:12:38 EDT." <200510030212.j932CcKT025910@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <200510030212.j932CcKT025910@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1128357155_5142P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 12:32:35 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1436 Lines: 37 --==_Exmh_1128357155_5142P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 22:12:38 EDT, Horst von Brand said: > > some > > operating system primitives, such as message passing (based on a > > derivative by thompson of the "alice" project from plessey, imperial and > > manchester university in the mid-80s), hardware cache line lookups > > (which means instead of linked list searching, the hardware does it for > > you in a single cycle), stuff like that. > > Single CPU cycle for searching data in memory? Impossible. Well... if it was content-addressable RAM similar to what's already used for the hardware TLB's and the like - just that it's one thing to make a 32 or 256 location content-addressable RAM, and totally another to have multiple megabytes of the stuff. :) --==_Exmh_1128357155_5142P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFDQV0jcC3lWbTT17ARAi/hAJ42LiUjctftfIjUUD+cfCOBK9002ACg7Bra 1gXBy94CqkQLDTb5ggOALgg= =+azY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1128357155_5142P-- - 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/