Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 12:39:54 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net> To: mark@vmunix.com (Mark Mayo) Cc: dyson@iquest.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here is what I promised :-) Message-ID: <199806211739.MAA07603@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <19980621124554.A22760@vmunix.com> from Mark Mayo at "Jun 21, 98 12:45:54 pm"
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Mark Mayo said: > On Sat, Jun 20, 1998 at 05:23:15PM -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: > > Gang: > > > > This is to follow up on my promise for a more formal goodbye. I > [SNIP] > > > It appears that we have found a direction that will apparently > > bear very sweet fruit, with few bitter seeds. The technology is > > significantly different from existing kernel structures, and has > > fault tolerant aspects that are almost impossible to imagine in > > a conventional setting. The design and concept phase is > > progressing rapidly, and an initial structure will likely be > > complete soon. It should be bootable, but not complete (from > > an API point of view), in the next month or so. > > Just curious John, any URLs or even a name you can point us > to at this point? > That will be materializing in a few weeks :-). There is currently a group of 3 developers, and we are in a mad-rush of brainstorming. This thing just looks better and better everyday. I am waiting to find a serious problem with the so far proposed schemes. :-). I am slightly suspicious of certain LL performance issues, but those often can be mitigated by specialization of code sequences (micro-optimization.) There are also aspects of the kernel structure that are so different (but potentially much more cache conserving) that it is really hard to compare non-scaled LL and scaled LL behavior yet. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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