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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 06:38:50 -0700
From: yodaiken@fsmlabs.com
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: yodaiken@fsmlabs.com, Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>,
        Arjan van de Ven <arjan@fenrus.demon.nl>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201141201040.28881-100000@serv>; from zippel@linux-m68k.org on Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 12:14:47PM +0100
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 12:14:47PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
> 
> > 	Nobody has answered my question about the conflict between SMP per-cpu caching
> > 	and preempt. Since NUMA is apparently the future of MP in the PC world and
> > 	the future of Linux servers, it's interesting to consider this tradeoff.
> 
> Preempt is a UP feature so far.

I think this is a sufficient summary of your engineering approach.

 ...

> More of other FUD deleted, Victor, could you please stop this?

I guess that Andrew, Alan, Andrea and I all are raising objections that
you ignore because we  have some kind of shared bias.

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Victor Yodaiken 
Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company.
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