Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 19:05:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 19:05:44 -0400 Received: from khms.westfalen.de ([62.153.201.243]:29633 "EHLO khms.westfalen.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 19:05:44 -0400 Date: 24 Jun 2002 00:56:00 +0200 From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org cc: lm@bitmover.com Message-ID: <8RVhG6aHw-B@khms.westfalen.de> In-Reply-To: <20020622122656.W23670@work.bitmover.com> Subject: Re: latest linus-2.5 BK broken X-Mailer: CrossPoint v3.12d.kh9 R/C435 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Organisation? Me?! Are you kidding? References: <20020621105055.D13973@work.bitmover.com> <20020622122656.W23670@work.bitmover.com> X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. Comment: Unsolicited commercial mail will incur an US$100 handling fee per received mail. X-Fix-Your-Modem: +++ATS2=255&WO1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 928 Lines: 21 lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy) wrote on 22.06.02 in <20020622122656.W23670@work.bitmover.com>: > Just out of curiousity, have you actually ever worked on a fine grain > threaded OS? One that scales to at least 32 processors? Solaris? IRIX? > Others? It makes a difference, if you've been there, your perspective is IIRC, you said that your proposed system should have one oslet per about 4 CPUs. And I see many people claiming that current Linux locking is aimed at being good with about 4 CPUs. Maybe I'm dense, but it seems to me that means current Linux locking is aimed at exactly the spot where you argue it should be aimed *anyway*. What am I not seeing? MfG Kai - 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/