Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751367AbVK2OqG (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:46:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751365AbVK2OqF (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:46:05 -0500 Received: from prgy-npn2.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.38]:60028 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751369AbVK2OqC (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:46:02 -0500 Message-ID: <438B616B.6070101@tmr.com> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:58:35 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050729 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz CC: Alan Cox , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andi Kleen , 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 References: <1132766489.7268.71.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4384AECC.1030403@zytor.com> <1132782245.13095.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20051123214835.GA24044@nevyn.them.org> <20051123222056.GA25078@nevyn.them.org> <20051123234256.GA27337@nevyn.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20051123234256.GA27337@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1221 Lines: 32 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 03:08:59PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >>In contrast, the simple silicon support scales wonderfully well. Suddenly >>libraries can be thread-safe _and_ efficient on UP too. You get to eat >>your cake and have it too. > > > By buying new hardware and only caring about people using the magic > architecture. No thanks. That is the problem, waiting for Intel to do hardware magic, or even to decide IF they do it. Like assuming that everyone has SMP because a few percent of the users have dual core chips. The majority of the markey will have SMP someday, but ignoring the current status isn't realistic. > > Maybe I'll implement this some weekend. Love to see it, I'm only semi-convinced it can be done in a way which actually produces significant benefits. > -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me - 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/