On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Alexey Zhuravlev wrote:
>Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 18:59:04 +0000
>From: Alexey Zhuravlev <alexey@istu.udm.ru>
>To: Tuukka Toivonen <tutoivon@mail.student.oulu.fi>
>Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@digital.com>, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
>Subject: Re: Linux kernerl preemptive ??
>
>Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
>
>> Now, one would suppose that fine-granularity locking is the goal. Many
>> commercial operating systems do that, eg. IRIX. It is supposed to give the
>> best scalability. However, this has a hit on performance especially on
>> systems with just one or two CPUs (like most PCs these days).
>>
>> Some people (mainly Larry McVoy) have proposed that this shouldn't be
>> done. He has proposed another way how scalability should be achieved. But
>> since you didn't ask that, I stop my story here.
>
>very interesting. Can you continue from this point?
>
>:.˛mkabzwmb˛mbz_^nrzh&z vy 杶i i
err... looks like it is time to do an fsck there... ;o)
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