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SubjectRe: Scaling noise
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 18:52:49 -0700
Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 03:50:31AM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > There are other arguments, such as how complex locking is, and how it will
> > never work correctly, but those are noise: it's pretty much done now, the
> > complexity is still manageable, and Linux has never been more stable.
>
> yeah, right. I'm not sure what you are smoking but I'll avoid your dealer.

I hate to enter these threads but...

The amount of locking bugs found in the core networking, ipv4, and
ipv6 for a year or two in 2.4.x has been nearly nil.

If you're going to try and argue against supporting huge SMP
to me, don't make locking complexity one of the arguments. :-)
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