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SubjectRe: latest linus-2.5 BK broken
You're missing the point. Larry is saying "I have been down this road 
before, take heed". We don't want to waste the time reinventing bloat
when we can learn from others mistakes.

-RW

Cort Dougan wrote:

>"Beating the SMP horse to death" does make sense for 2 processor SMP
>machines. When 64 processor machines become commodity (Linux is a
>commodity hardware OS) something will have to be done. When research
>groups put Linux on 1k processors - it's an experiment. I don't think they
>have much right to complain that Linux doesn't scale up to that level -
>it's not designed to.
>
>That being said, large clusters are an interesting research area but it is
>_not_ a failing of Linux that it doesn't scale to them.
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