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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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Subject: Re: Kernel Thread scheduler
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Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> Interstingly only about 4 people downloaded all 7 pictures.
> (according to the logs).. This is a bit disappointing.
> Quite a few more looked at  the first one, and then didn;t bother with the
> rest.. I wonder if they had problems with it? was it impossible to look at
> them for some people? Should I have done something different with them?
> Or maybe the topic of shecduling thasks with multiple threads is just
> boring :-)

I am incredible disagreement about the idea of virtual processors
(KSEG's), but then you know that from two years ago.

It won't scale.  There's no need to repeat everything ad infinitum,
just because it's easier to implement.  The resulting code is actually
_less_ complex, though its conceptual complexity is higher.

If you go don the virtual processor route, expect me to not ride in
the bandwagon.

-- Terry

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