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Other memory management workOther memory management workPosted Sep 12, 2002 4:13 UTC (Thu) by cyanide (guest, #2236)Parent article: Other memory management work It's interesting to see these "big iron" patches still comming in. I seem to recall that LWN speculated a while ago that companies like IBM might end up forking, given that large scale system design is often in conflict with Linus' push to get the kernel doing interesting things on small devices. I wonder if anyone can tell me how much of an issue this conflict is now, and whether the threat of a big iron fork is real or not? Cheers, Oliver White
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Other memory management work Posted Sep 12, 2002 7:35 UTC (Thu) by Arithon (subscriber, #3647) [Link] I saw an article which might help on LWN a few weeks ago:http://lwn.net/Articles/4526/ It talks about how the kernel could die a horrible death if all was sacrificed at the altar of scalability, and the locking was granularised to the Nth degree. And there's a reference to "cache-coherent clusters" which are an interesting possibility:
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