From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>,
Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
Paolo Ciarrocchi <ciarrocchi@linuxmail.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LMbench2.0 results
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 10:24:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <315901602.1031567059@[10.10.2.3]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E17oRol-0006pi-00@starship>
>> > An idea that's looking more and more attractive as time goes by is to
>> > have a global config option that specifies that we want to choose the
>> > simple way of doing things wherever possible, over the enterprise way.
>> > We want this especially for embedded. On low end processors, it's even
>> > possible that the small way will be faster in some cases than the
>> > enterprise way, due to cache effects.
>>
>> Can't we just use the existing config options instead? CONFIG_SMP is
>> a good start ;-) How many embedded systems with SMP do you have?
>
> You need to look at it from the other direction: how do the needs of a
> uniprocessor Clawhammer box differ from a Linksys adsl router?
I wouldn't call uniprocessor Clawhammer the "enterprise way" type
machine. But other than that, I see your point. You're in a far
better position to answer your own question than I am, so I'll leave
that as rhetorical ;-)
M.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-09 17:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-07 12:18 LMbench2.0 results Paolo Ciarrocchi
2002-09-07 12:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-07 18:53 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-07 21:44 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-13 22:46 ` Pavel Machek
2002-09-07 14:33 ` James Morris
2002-09-09 22:22 ` Cliff White
2002-09-07 16:20 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-07 20:03 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-07 23:12 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-07 23:01 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-07 23:44 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-09-08 17:07 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-08 18:11 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-09-08 18:40 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-08 20:48 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-09-08 21:51 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09 21:13 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-09 21:44 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09 22:09 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-08 7:51 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-08 7:37 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-08 8:28 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-08 8:25 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-08 9:12 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-08 20:02 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-09 13:37 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-09 16:16 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-09 16:26 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-09-09 16:55 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-09 17:24 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2002-09-09 21:11 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-09 16:52 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-07 12:40 Paolo Ciarrocchi
2002-09-07 14:09 Shane Shrybman
2002-09-07 18:04 Paolo Ciarrocchi
2002-09-13 22:49 ` Pavel Machek
2002-09-07 18:09 Paolo Ciarrocchi
2002-09-08 7:51 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-14 18:26 Paolo Ciarrocchi
2002-09-15 18:08 ` Pavel Machek
2002-09-22 12:42 Paolo Ciarrocchi
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