Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 07:21:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 07:21:42 -0500 Received: from [62.245.135.174] ([62.245.135.174]:25532 "EHLO mail.teraport.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 07:21:27 -0500 Message-ID: <3C441EBF.A7B30616@TeraPort.de> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:21:19 +0100 From: Martin Knoblauch Reply-To: m.knoblauch@TeraPort.de Organization: TeraPort GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.17 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" CC: rml@tech9.net Subject: Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on lotus/Teraport/de(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 01/15/2002 01:21:19 PM, Serialize by Router on lotus/Teraport/de(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 01/15/2002 01:21:26 PM, Serialize complete at 01/15/2002 01:21:26 PM Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable > > From: Robert Love (rml@tech9.net) > Date: Mon Jan 14 2002 - 15:16:45 EST > > > > > You're claiming that preemption by nature is not Unix-like? > > > > Kernel preemption is not traditionally part of UNIX. > > True original AT&T was non-preemptible, but it also didn't originally > have paging. Today, Solaris, IRIX, latest BSD (via BSDng), etc. are all > preemptible kernels. > He doesn't like IRIX, so ... :-) Martin -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Martin Knoblauch | email: Martin.Knoblauch@TeraPort.de TeraPort GmbH | Phone: +49-89-510857-309 C+ITS | Fax: +49-89-510857-111 http://www.teraport.de | Mobile: +49-170-4904759 - 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/