From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3A818DAE.3182B163@mvista.com> Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 13:02:22 -0500 From: Dan Malek MIME-Version: 1.0 To: paulus@linuxcare.com.au CC: Gabriel Paubert , tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com, linuxppc-commit@hq.fsmlabs.com, linuxppc-dev Subject: Re: context overflow References: <3A6CCBDC.3D7B722A@mvista.com> <14975.55035.835724.234984@tango.linuxcare.com.au> <3A806D89.16B31EA0@mvista.com> <14976.30150.97137.755604@tango.linuxcare.com.au> <3A808560.6FF96E3C@mvista.com> <14976.38302.725479.486320@diego.linuxcare.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Paul Mackerras wrote: > Sounds nice, got a concrete proposal? It's easy to criticise. Sorry, I don't mean to criticize (or criticise :-). Well, maybe just a little......in general some of the Linux design seems to be just a little short sighted (not picking on you Paul, I even do this :-). We tend to fix an immediate problem today without stepping back for 30 seconds to apply some knowledge gained over the past 50 years of computer development. Over the past month or so, I have been part of some new processor ports and trying to find solutions for large memory systems. It has pushed me deep into the VM design again, I am trying to clean up some of the redundant functions we have and find some longer term solutions instead of providing a "hack of the day" that will just need to be thrown away in favor of something else tomorrow. I don't yet have a proposal, and in retrospect it does seem the discussion started on a negative tone. I'm thinking about flying out to some Caribbean island for a week or so to work on this (among other things :-). I have a couple of things to update for the other processor work I am doing, and after that I will experiment with a few things. I'll let you know if I can find something useful. -- Dan ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/