Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux, the microkernel (was Re: latest linus-2.5 BK broken) | Date | Fri, 21 Jun 2002 21:07:10 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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[Cc:s heavily snipped] Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de> said: > On Friday 21 June 2002 20:46, Cort Dougan wrote: > > I don't see Linux being in serious jeopardy in the short-term of becoming > > solaris. It only aims at running on 1-4 processors and does a pretty good > > job of that. Most sane people realize, as Larry points out, that the > > current design will not scale to 64 processors and beyond. That's obvious, > > it's not an alarmist or deep statement. The key is to realize that it's > > not _meant_ to scale that high right now. > > And originally, it was never meant to scale to more than one processor.
Right. If they had designed it for 4/8 CPUs from the start, they would surely have gotten it dead wrong. Just to find out how wrong around now...
If 64-way becomes commodity one day in whatever form the hardware people dream up, Linux will surely follow. -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Vin~a del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616 - 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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