Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Oct 2005 18:23:38 +0100 | From | Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <> | Subject | Re: what's next for the linux kernel? |
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On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 09:15:57PM +0400, Nikita Danilov wrote: > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton writes: > > [...] > > > > > assuming that you have an intelligent programmer (or some really good > > and working parallelisation tools) who really knows his threads? > > Well, I'd like to have a hardware with CAS-n operation for one > thing.
CAS - compare and swap - by CAS-n i presume that you mean effectively a SIMD CAS instruction?
> But what would this buy us?
you do not say :) i am genuinely interested to hear what it would buy.
> Having different kernel algorithms > for x86 and mythical cas-n-able hardware is not viable.
if i can get an NPTL .deb package for glibc for x86 only it would tend to imply that that isn't a valid conclusion: am i missing something?
cheers,
l.
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