Re: [patch] lockless, scalable get_pid(), for_each_process() elimination, 2.5.35-BK
From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Wed Sep 18 2002 - 12:43:06 EST
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On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Cort Dougan wrote:
> It's also not a bad idea to sometimes say "Linux cannot do that".
> Trying to make the system do _everything_ will result in it doing many
> things very poorly.
That's been tried before, but for some reason people just won't
listen and Linux ended up running on non-x86 machines and even SMP.
I don't see any reason to rule out a fix for this problem in
principle, maybe somebody will come up with code that Linus does
like ?
cheers,
Rik
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