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Date:      Thu, 13 Jul 2000 23:44:03 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz>, Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SysctlFS 
Message-ID:  <200007140644.XAA00783@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:12:08 PDT." <20000713121208.50527@hydrogen.funkthat.com> 

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> > 	/bus	- newbus tree
> 
> I think it's wrong to assume that this is a tree... I would like to
> see it move to a graph based structure...  as we start off loading
> parts of processing, we will no longer have such an obvious nexus..

I don't think it has anything to do with "offloading parts of 
processing", but if we ever end up running on a switched fabric 
architecture, parts of the bus hierarchy aren't going to look very 
tree-like.

> Each cpu should be the "root" of it's own tree...  but that's just my
> view on the world.. :)

And one that's hopelessly incompatible with the way things work, 
unfortunately

-- 
... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
rivals and unfortunately opponents also.  But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view.  [Dr. Fritz Todt]




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