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SubjectRe: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable
Hi,

yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:

> I have not seen that argued - certainly I have not argued it myself.
> My argument is:

Which is your usual FUD and everything was discussed before, just
repeating claims without any arguments doesn't make it better. :-(

> It makes the kernel _much_ more complex

It certainly adds complexity, but which new feature doesn't?
Please specify "_much_ more complex".

> It has known costs e.g. by making the lockless
> per-processor caching more difficult if not impossible

It would only expose the locking, which is currently hidden in the smp
infrastructure.
What's so "impossible" about it?

> It seems to lead to a requirement for inheritance

Where? I still haven't seen any proof for this.

> It has no demonstrated benefits.

http://kpreempt.sourceforge.net/benno/linux+kp-2.4.6/3x256.html

bye, Roman
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