Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Mar 2000 21:08:46 -0500 | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: new IRQ scalability changes in 2.3.48 |
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Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com) wrote:
> Threaded kernels are WAAAY overvalued. I did not agree with the > low-latency patches because I thought they were ugly for no real > gain. I _would_ agree to the UP-case only thing, simply because it > uses the SMP locking that already exists, and extends it in a simple > way to the UP case ("threading" a UP box by making the scheduling > consider one CPU as a special case of multiple CPU's).
Don't forget the debugging advantages. Suddenly the vast unwashed horde of us using UP boxes will start beating the SMP locking logic to death on a daily basis looking for race conditions. :)
So, would this be a 2.4 thing or is it just too dangerous this late in the game?
Rob
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