Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Feb 2003 23:54:30 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call |
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On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 08:57:17PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: >> Dig through the mail logs and you'll see that I was completely against the >> preemption patch. I think it is a bad idea, if you want real time, use >> rt/linux, it solves the problem right.
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 11:44:47PM -0800, Bill Huey wrote: > And large unbounded operation on data structures. DOS, a single tasking > operating system is fast running a single thread of execution too, it just > happens to also be completely useless. > Whether folks like it or not, embedded RT is the future of Linux much more > so than any single NUMA machine that's sold or can be sold by IBM, SGI and > any other vendor of that type.
And scalability is as essential there as it is on 512x/16TB O2K's.
For this, it's _downward_ scalability, where "downward" is relative to "typical" UP x86 boxen.
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