Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 00:34:03 +0100 From: Andrea Campi <andrea@webcom.it> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Core's function (was: The Project and onward [was: Re: cvscommit: src/sys/netinet ip_output.c]) Message-ID: <20010315003403.C552@webcom.it> In-Reply-To: <xzplmq8x6x9.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 12:33:06AM %2B0100 References: <3794.984471257@critter> <20010313104930.C60817@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <20010313133108S.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <3AAEA353.B31800B5@originative.co.uk> <20010314104739.A50356@gurney.reilly.home> <20010314104739.A50356@gurney.reilly.home> <200103140142.UAA42549@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20010314020407.Y412@hand.dotat.at> <20010315001732.B552@webcom.it> <xzplmq8x6x9.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 12:33:06AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Andrea Campi <andrea@webcom.it> writes:
> > I'm trying to get more people in the company I work for, a BT subsidiary, to
> > install and use FreeBSD. Problem is, the CTO is a great AIX fan, and is
> > always touting the preemptive kernel of Mach based architectures. Anybody care
> > to give me pointers, by private mail, on what arguments we have against that?
>
> We don't have any arguments against preemptive kernels. We think
> they're a good idea. In fact, we think they're such a good idea that
> we ("we" as in "Jason Evans, John Baldwin, Jake Burkholder and Bosko
> Milekic, with a little help from some other people, including me")
> are working our collective butts off making our kernel preemptive. The
> -CURRENT kernel has been partially preemptive for the past month or
> two.
Yeah of course I know this, I'm not SO clueless :-p
I meant to say: "in which way our implementation will be better than Mach/AIX,
if it will? At least on par?" ;-)
Seriously, I am fully aware of the direction we're going and on how much works
you guys are putting into making this happen, and I'm very grateful to you all.
Bye,
Andrea
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