Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:54:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:53:19 -0500 Received: from bitmover.com ([192.132.92.2]:33923 "EHLO bitmover.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:50:06 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 12:50:05 -0800 From: Larry McVoy To: Pavel Machek Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" , Larry McVoy , Stephan von Krawczynski , Horst von Brand , lkml Subject: Re: Linux/Pro [was Re: Coding style - a non-issue] Message-ID: <20011206125005.K27589@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Pavel Machek , "Martin J. Bligh" , Larry McVoy , Stephan von Krawczynski , Horst von Brand , lkml In-Reply-To: <20011202155440.F2622@work.bitmover.com> <2379997133.1007402344@mbligh.des.sequent.com> <20011206134642.D49@toy.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20011206134642.D49@toy.ucw.cz>; from pavel@suse.cz on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 01:46:43PM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Then we can create memnet (netdevice over shared memory), and Larry's dream > can come true... I'm hoping, but my dreams do not include shared memory over a network. That's just way too slow. It's been done a pile of times, every time people say that the caching will make it fast enough and those people are wrong every time. People who think DSM is a good idea are the same people who think a millisecond is OK for a cache miss (current cache miss times are well under .0002 milliseconds). -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - 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/