Re: what's next for the linux kernel?

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 09:15:57PM +0400, Nikita Danilov wrote:
> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
>  > 
>  >  assuming that you have an intelligent programmer (or some really good
>  >  and working parallelisation tools) who really knows his threads?
> 
> Well, I'd like to have a hardware with CAS-n operation for one
> thing. 

 CAS - compare and swap - by CAS-n i presume that you mean effectively a
 SIMD CAS instruction?

> But what would this buy us? 

 you do not say :)  i am genuinely interested to hear what it would buy.

> Having different kernel algorithms
> for x86 and mythical cas-n-able hardware is not viable.

 if i can get an NPTL .deb package for glibc for x86 only it would tend
 to imply that that isn't a valid conclusion: am i missing something?

 cheers,

 l.
 
 
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