Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable

yodaiken
2002-01-14T13:41:51Z

On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 12:14:47PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
>
> > Nobody has answered my question about the conflict between SMP per-cpu caching
> > and preempt. Since NUMA is apparently the future of MP in the PC world and
> > the future of Linux servers, it's interesting to consider this tradeoff.
>
> Preempt is a UP feature so far.

I think this is a sufficient summary of your engineering approach.

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> More of other FUD deleted, Victor, could you please stop this?

I guess that Andrew, Alan, Andrea and I all are raising objections that
you ignore because we have some kind of shared bias.

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