Re: a joint letter on low latency and Linux

[Andi Kleen]

On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 07:39:00AM -0600, [e-mail] wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 02:27:47PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 	- Use Linus' trick of a multi threaded UP kernel using
> > 	  SMP locks (2.5 material), also hated by Larry/Victor.
> 
> I don't hate it at all. I think it will add serious overhead, but
> it is a clean design that can be turned off.

You can already study it today in user-mode-linux (that latest versions
have a SMP emulation iirc @)

-Andi