Re: Linux/Pro [was Re: Coding style - a non-issue]

Mike Fedyk
2001-12-05T07:06:01Z

On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 12:05:00AM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> mfedyk@matchmail.com (Mike Fedyk) wrote on 30.11.01 in <20011130210155.B489@mikef-linux.matchmail.com>:
>
> > On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 02:21:57AM +0100, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
>
> > > So maybe
> > > the real good choice would be this: let the good parts of Solaris (and
> > > maybe its SMP features) migrate into linux.
> >
> > Before 2.3 and 2.4 there probably would've been much more contention against
> > something like this. Even now with large SMP scalability goals, I think it
> > would be hard to get something like this to be accepted into Linux.
>
> It works for SGI/Irix/XFS, why would it not work for SUN/Solaris/whatever?
>

I meant actually transplanting Solaris's SMP into Linux. You don't see SGI
doing anything like this...