| To: | torbjorn.gannholm@fra.se (Torbjörn Gannholm) |
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| Subject: | Re: GNU/Hurd |
| From: | alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) |
| Date: | Thu, 26 Nov 1998 13:10:23 +0000 (GMT) |
| Cc: | linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com |
| In-reply-to: | <365D0C17.73AB1509@fra.se> from "Torbjörn Gannholm" at Nov 26, 98 09:06:48 am |
| Sender: | owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com |
> A possible minus is the message-passing between the servers which might > be time-consuming. "Yesterdays technology, next week" to quote an OSI saying > Still, my feeling is that this could be a real winner on flexibility and > performance. Any comments? If you want a pre-emptible OS core its not HURD. Being pre-emptible without deadlocks or other interesting suprises is a very very hard problem. Consider things like disk sorting algorithms when you have 40 blocks for a low pri process queued up with 2 for a real time one. |
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