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On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > and, what is the linux kernel? > > it's a daft, monolithic design that is suitable and faster on > single-processor systems, and that design is going to look _really_ > outdated, really soon. Linux already has a number of scalable SMP synchronisation mechanisms. The main scalability effort nowadays is about the avoidance of so-called "cache line bouncing". http://wiki.kernelnewbies.org/wiki/SMPSynchronisation -- All Rights Reversed - 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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