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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: SMP/cc Cluster description
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 22:30:23 +0100
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On December 6, 2001 09:21 pm, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 12:15:54PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> > If you aren't getting rid of this locking, what is the point?
> > That is what we are trying to talk about.
> 
> The points are:
> 
> a) you have to thread the entire kernel, every data structure which is a
>    problem.  Scheduler, networking, device drivers, everything.  That's
>    thousands of locks and uncountable bugs, not to mention the impact on
>    uniprocessor performance.
> 
> b) I have to thread a file system.

OK, this is your central point.  It's a little more than just a mmap, no?
We're pressing you on your specific ideas on how to handle the 'peripheral' 
details.

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Daniel
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