Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Sep 2002 14:43:06 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [patch] lockless, scalable get_pid(), for_each_process() elimination, 2.5.35-BK |
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On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Cort Dougan wrote:
> It's also not a bad idea to sometimes say "Linux cannot do that". > Trying to make the system do _everything_ will result in it doing many > things very poorly.
That's been tried before, but for some reason people just won't listen and Linux ended up running on non-x86 machines and even SMP.
I don't see any reason to rule out a fix for this problem in principle, maybe somebody will come up with code that Linus does like ?
cheers,
Rik -- Spamtrap of the month: september@surriel.com
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