From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Threads: Sewing badges of honor onto a Kernel From: Dave Lukes To: Linus Torvalds Cc: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: References: <290c102a9496a5f2a33af7922d24382e@yourdomain.dom> <1077884597.21772.21.camel@zevon> <1077899988.21772.196.camel@zevon> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1077904228.21772.252.camel@zevon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 17:50:28 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0068ff1c-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > Hey, _you're_ the one with the crazy idea. As such, the burden of proof is > on you to show that it isn't crazy. Firstly, an old saying: "Everyone is insane but yourself". Secondly, I'm not the one who wants to put 200Mb on the stack (see below): who's crazy, again? > Because message passing is idiotic, when the real hardware just passes > pointers around? Ohh, yea, and pointers scale really well to NUMAs, right? > Methinks you have read a few too many papers about microkernels, without > actually seeing the real world. Methinks you don't know much about me. > Hint: you can't message-pass a hash table that describes 200 megabytes > worth of filesystem names. No shit, Sherlock! Thanks for the enlightenment! Next question: are you _seriously_ suggesting having 200Mb on a stack? > Welcome to the real world I _am_ in the real world. Check out who we are: we don't sit in labs playing with our pointers: we build real systems that we sell to real customers for real money. > , Neo. Hmmm ... Someone who fought against the bland uniformity of a regimented world: I'll tolerate that epithet. > Stop playing around with those examples your professors showed you. This attitude is beginning to _seriously_ piss me off: you know _nothing_ about my knowledge, abilities or opinions. To be specific: I have _never_ attended a CompSci lecture in my life. > They > had no relevance. ... and what _does_ have relevance? Cheers, Dave.