Wait just a minute!

Posted Apr 22, 2004 15:51 UTC (Thu) by heinlein (guest, #1029)
Parent article: Scheduling domains

Jon,

I've got to complain. I'm not much of a hardware guy, nor am I anything close to a kernel hacker. I can blissfully allow my eyes to glaze over whenever I encounter articles that purport to explain the interactions between the kernel and the hardware.

You, however, write much too clearly. I'm pretty sure I actually understood your explanation of scheduling domains. That means that I had to pay attention -- no daydreaming while nominally doing my "professional development" reading. Shame on you.

Wait just a minute!

Posted Apr 23, 2004 12:11 UTC (Fri) by pimlott (guest, #1535) [Link]

You think you're suffering? Think of the poor kernel hackers who are losing their mystique!

Wait just a minute!

Posted Apr 23, 2004 12:46 UTC (Fri) by alspnost (guest, #2763) [Link]

Right on - I have learned more about this sort of stuff from LWN than from any other source. I find kernel internals rather fascinating, but trying to learn by reading the raw LKML discussions is completely beyond me, and I have never got very far that way; Jon's kernel articles are superb, and I know of no other place where I can get this type of analysis. It's not watered down or simplified, yet it's expressed in a way that people like us actually have a chance of understanding. A rare talent indeed!

Now, where can I get a nice 8-way NUMA Opteron laptop so that I can play with all this scheduling stuff for real? ;-)