Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 02:25:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 02:25:35 -0500 Received: from svr3.applink.net ([206.50.88.3]:54536 "EHLO svr3.applink.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 02:25:30 -0500 Message-Id: <200201010725.g017PJSr016310@svr3.applink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Timothy Covell Reply-To: timothy.covell@ashavan.org To: Rob Landley , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New Scheduler and Digital Signal Processors? Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 01:21:32 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] In-Reply-To: <20020101050208.OMXO20896.femail24.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there> In-Reply-To: <20020101050208.OMXO20896.femail24.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 31 December 2001 15:00, Rob Landley wrote: > I've heard several people (including Alan) talk about banging on the > scheduler to make 8-way systems happy, and the first scheduler surgery > patch has apparently been accepted to 2.5 now. Lots of people are talking > about a scheduler patch with a per-processor task queue, so I'd like to ask > a question. [snip] And could we please have support for one of those FPGA super computers? They are already in use by the NASA and probably NSA. It ain't fair that they can crack DES and GOST a million times faster than I can. And I need to improve my Seti scores. ;-) This is my way of saying that I'll believe when I see it in the mass market. -- timothy.covell@ashavan.org. - 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/