Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:49:07 -0800 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks! |
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On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 03:38:00PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > Larry McVoy wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 03:15:37PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > The quality of the networking code in Linux is quite excellent. There's > > > some scaling problems relative to NetWare. We are firmly committed to > > > getting something out with a Linux code base and NetWare metrics. Love > > > to have your help. > > > > Jeff, I'm a little concerned with some of your statements. Netware may > > be the greatest thing since sliced bread, but it isn't a full operating > > system, so comparing it to Linux is sort of meaningless. > > It's makes more money in a week than Linux has ever made.
And the relevance of that to this conversation is exactly what?
> A context switch in anoperating system context in it's simplest for is > > mov x, esp > mov esp, y > > > and you can support all that and get user to user context switches in a ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Apology accepted.
No apology was extended. You're spouting nonsense. User to user means process A in VM 1 switching to process B in VM 2. I'm sorry, Mr Merkey, but a
mov x, esp mov esp, y
doesn't begin to approach a user to user context switch. Please go learn what a user to user context switch is. Then come back when you can do one of those in a few cycles. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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