Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 17:53:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 17:52:58 -0500 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:17427 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 17:52:41 -0500 Subject: Re: SMP/cc Cluster description To: bcrl@redhat.com (Benjamin LaHaise) Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 22:59:36 +0000 (GMT) Cc: davem@redhat.com (David S. Miller), lm@bitmover.com, phillips@bonn-fries.net, davidel@xmailserver.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com, riel@conectiva.com.br, lars.spam@nocrew.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, hps@intermeta.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20011206172708.B31752@redhat.com> from "Benjamin LaHaise" at Dec 06, 2001 05:27:08 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 01:02:02PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > We've done %90 of the "other stuff" already, why waste the work? > > We've done the networking, we've done the scheduler, and the > > networking/block drivers are there too. > > The scheduler doesn't scale too well... Understatement. However retrofitting a real scheduler doesn't break the scalability of the system IMHO. - 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/