Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 7 Mar 1999 22:26:46 -0600 (CST) | From | Kamran Karimi <> | Subject | Re: Lets get this right (WAS RE:MOSIX and kernel mods) |
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Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>Larry McVoy writes: >> From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> > >>>>> Those that wrote the DSM code state that it has little impact on the >>>>> rest of the kernel. Do you claim that they lie? >>>> >>>> Yup, I sure do. > >I still expect you to apologize to the DIPC authors. You've accused >them of lying and bloat without even looking at the code. Unlike you, >they actually wrote some code.
Albert, now you are getting the picture here. I used to discuss the technical issues before, but that was because I thought I was taking part in a genuine techincal discussion. Unfortunately this proved not to be the case.
Most of the people opposing DIPC have never even looked at the documentaion, much less the code itself. The problem is, they think they are wiser than the rest of us, and have this divine obligation to save the Linux kernel from bloating.
It is interesting to see the amount of energy they spend on keeping DIPC out of standard Linux kernel distributions. Unfortunately, most of this energy is used in "talking" than brain activity.
Answering them is a privilege they don't deserve, and is hopeless anyway.
I guess Linus will be the ultimate judge here. I am hoping that DIPC will get into 2.3.x kernels when they start to come out. Maybe this way more people will actually see what it is, how it works, the effects it has on the kernel, and what kind of applications will benefit from it. That is becasue currently using DIPC requires patching the standard kernel, and many people are not comfortable with that.
-Kamran
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