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> You could make the same argument against SMP, but Linux has SMP support > despite all the thousands of SMP flaws that once lurked with no obvious > automated way to find them. Most of them have been found. We spent four years on that. It was also done in a very careful and precise manner starting with SMP that gave the same guarantees as non SMP for the 2.0 kernel tree, then moving on to relaxing guarantees in certain places -as they were audited- for 2.2 and with 2.4 increasing the coverage to all major points of contention except the scsi layer > I have a patch to do this for earlier versions of the kernel preemption > patch - I need to bring it up to date and send it to Robert for use with > the latest versions of his patch. Nod - thats a productive approach - 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/ | |||||||||
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