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From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Kai Henningsen <kaih@khms.westfalen.de>
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Subject: Re: Linux/Pro [was Re: Coding style - a non-issue]
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On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 12:05:00AM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> mfedyk@matchmail.com (Mike Fedyk)  wrote on 30.11.01 in <20011130210155.B489@mikef-linux.matchmail.com>:
> 
> > On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 02:21:57AM +0100, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> 
> > > So maybe
> > > the real good choice would be this: let the good parts of Solaris (and
> > > maybe its SMP features) migrate into linux.
> >
> > Before 2.3 and 2.4 there probably would've been much more contention against
> > something like this.  Even now with large SMP scalability goals, I think it
> > would be hard to get something like this to be accepted into Linux.
> 
> It works for SGI/Irix/XFS, why would it not work for SUN/Solaris/whatever?
>

I meant actually transplanting Solaris's SMP into Linux.  You don't see SGI
doing anything like this...

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