Re: what's next for the linux kernel?

[Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]

On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 22:12:38 EDT, Horst von Brand said:

> >                                                                     some
> >  operating system primitives, such as message passing (based on a
> >  derivative by thompson of the "alice" project from plessey, imperial and
> >  manchester university in the mid-80s), hardware cache line lookups
> >  (which means instead of linked list searching, the hardware does it for
> >  you in a single cycle), stuff like that.
> 
> Single CPU cycle for searching data in memory? Impossible.

Well... if it was content-addressable RAM similar to what's already used for
the hardware TLB's and the like - just that it's one thing to make a 32 or 256
location content-addressable RAM, and totally another to have multiple megabytes
of the stuff. :)

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