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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: James Simmons <jsimmons@edgeglobal.com>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>, Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: MMIO regions
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 18:22:17 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14338.7369.601459.308150@dukat.scot.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9910061633250.29637-100000@imperial.edgeglobal.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:40:32 -0400 (EDT), James Simmons
<jsimmons@edgeglobal.com> said:

> No VM stuff. I think the better approach is with the scheduler. 

The big problem there is threads.  We simply cannot have different VM
setups for different threads of a given process --- threads are
_defined_ as being processes which share the same VM.  The only way to
achieve VM serialisation in a threaded application via the scheduler is
to serialise the threads, which is rather contrary to what you want on
an SMP machine.  CivCTP and Quake 3 are already threaded and SMP-capable
on Linux, for example, and we have a threaded version of the Mesa openGL
libraries too.

--Stephen
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  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-10-11 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-10-04 14:38 James Simmons
1999-10-04 15:31 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-04 15:52   ` James Simmons
1999-10-04 16:02     ` Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
1999-10-04 17:27       ` James Simmons
1999-10-04 17:56         ` Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
1999-10-04 18:26           ` James Simmons
1999-10-04 19:19         ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-06 20:15           ` James Simmons
1999-10-11 17:09             ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-11 17:26               ` Jeff Garzik
1999-10-11 23:14                 ` James Simmons
1999-10-11 17:57               ` James Simmons
1999-10-04 16:11     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-04 18:29       ` James Simmons
1999-10-04 19:35         ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-07 19:40           ` James Simmons
1999-10-10 11:24             ` Rik Faith
1999-10-10 14:03               ` Eric W. Biederman
1999-10-10 18:46                 ` Rik Faith
1999-10-11  0:21                   ` James Simmons
1999-10-11 10:59                     ` Rik Faith
1999-10-11  3:38                   ` Eric W. Biederman
1999-10-10 14:21               ` James Simmons
1999-10-11 17:22             ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
1999-10-04 16:58 ` Marcus Sundberg
1999-10-04 18:27   ` James Simmons

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