Re: a joint letter on low latency and Linux

Theodore Y. Ts'o (tytso@MIT.EDU)
Fri, 30 Jun 2000 09:12:44 -0400


Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 16:37:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>

If it cannot be handled with just a few well-placed things, then it
shouldn't be handled at all, and you should be working on trying to make
the UP-threaded kernel work ok, so that for the 2.5.x timeframe we won't
have this issue any more.

When we do the UP-threaded kernel, it would be good to keep the
non-UP-threaded option available as a config option, if for no other
reason than so we can do benchmarking numbers to keep us honest about
how much overhead we've added to support SMP/UP-threading.

- Ted

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