Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030491AbVKWXL1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 18:11:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030490AbVKWXL0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 18:11:26 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:46762 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030491AbVKWXLZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 18:11:25 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:10:39 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andi Kleen cc: Alan Cox , "H. Peter Anvin" , Gerd Knorr , Dave Jones , Zachary Amsden , Pavel Machek , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Zwane Mwaikambo , Pratap Subrahmanyam , Christopher Li , "Eric W. Biederman" , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [patch] SMP alternatives In-Reply-To: <20051123222212.GV20775@brahms.suse.de> Message-ID: References: <1132764133.7268.51.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20051123163906.GF20775@brahms.suse.de> <1132766489.7268.71.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4384AECC.1030403@zytor.com> <1132782245.13095.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20051123214344.GU20775@brahms.suse.de> <20051123222212.GV20775@brahms.suse.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: 692 Lines: 21 On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: > > I don't think it'll force them to that, it will just be a common > use case. e.g. you start a separate VM to run your firewall in. > Do you really need it multithreaded? The question is: do you need a virtualized environment for it. And the answer is: no. I realize that you can make up an infinite number of things you _can_ use virtualization for. That doesn't mean that people _will_. 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/