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From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: Adam Heath <doogie@brainfood.com>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] uml, ptrace, and BKL
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 23:30:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040918033012.GA1618@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0409171920470.1171@gradall.private.brainfood.com>

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 07:23:01PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> What this means to UML, is that there is an upper-bounds on how many instances
> can be on a server at once.  BKL also keeps preemption from occuring.

Please.  UML is a normal process.  It can't do anything to prevent preemption.

You're conflating the UML BKL and host BKL.  They're two separate things.

				Jeff


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-18  2:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-18  0:23 [uml-devel] uml, ptrace, and BKL Adam Heath
2004-09-18  3:30 ` Jeff Dike [this message]
2004-09-18  2:30   ` Adam Heath
2004-09-18 13:18     ` Jeff Dike
2004-09-18 18:20       ` Adam Heath
2004-09-18 20:50         ` Jeff Dike

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