Re: kqueue microbenchmark results

2000-12-16 Thread Wes Peters
"Koster, K.J." wrote: > > > > > > A simple way to keep the kernel simple: > > > > > http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-12-09-013-20-NW-GN-KN > > > > Device drivers in Perl. What a spectacularly bad idea. ;^) > > > That's what people used to say about writing kernels in C. But thos

Re: kqueue microbenchmark results

2000-12-15 Thread Michael C . Wu
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 04:36:57PM +0100, Koster, K.J. scribbled: | > http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-12-09-013-20-NW-GN-KN | > Device drivers in Perl. What a spectacularly bad idea. ;^) | That's what people used to say about writing kernels in C. There is a difference between (

RE: kqueue microbenchmark results

2000-12-15 Thread Koster, K.J.
> > > A simple way to keep the kernel simple: > > > http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-12-09-013-20-NW-GN-KN > > Device drivers in Perl. What a spectacularly bad idea. ;^) > That's what people used to say about writing kernels in C. Kees Jan

Re: kqueue microbenchmark results

2000-12-11 Thread Wes Peters
Jonas Bulow wrote: > > Dan Kegel wrote: > ... > > Don't jump to conclusions. He's honestly trying to > > understand what the optimal interface would be. > > Let him catch up. Help him understand the requirements > > which motivated the kqueue design and why his proposed > > system call does not

Re: kqueue microbenchmark results

2000-12-11 Thread Jonas Bulow
Dan Kegel wrote: ... > Don't jump to conclusions. He's honestly trying to > understand what the optimal interface would be. > Let him catch up. Help him understand the requirements > which motivated the kqueue design and why his proposed > system call does not meet them. > > His role right now

Re: kqueue microbenchmark results

2000-12-08 Thread Zach Brown
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:06:07PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > Dan Kegel wrote: > > > > His role right now is to keep the kernel as simple as possible. > > So the major advancements of pushing file servers and web servers into > the kernel fit into this role how? totally orthoganal to the `linu

Re: kqueue microbenchmark results

2000-12-08 Thread Dan Kegel
Wes Peters wrote: > Dan Kegel wrote: > > "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > > Why is it that I get the feeling more and more nowadays that Linus is > > > suffering from a worsening case of NIH when it comes to things > > > originated on BSD? > > > > Don't jump to conclusions. He's honestly trying to >

Re: kqueue microbenchmark results

2000-12-08 Thread Wes Peters
Dan Kegel wrote: > > "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > > > Why is it that I get the feeling more and more nowadays that Linus is > > suffering from a worsening case of NIH when it comes to things > > originated on BSD? > > Don't jump to conclusions. He's honestly trying to > understand what the opt

Re: kqueue microbenchmark results

2000-12-08 Thread Dan Kegel
"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > David Malone wrote: > > > > On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 05:01:17PM -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > > I'd love to do that, but am not quite sure how I'd go about it. > > > If you read the l-k mailing list, you'll see Linus calling kqueue > > > "overengineered", and what

Re: kqueue microbenchmark results

2000-12-08 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
David Malone wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 05:01:17PM -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > I'd love to do that, but am not quite sure how I'd go about it. > > If you read the l-k mailing list, you'll see Linus calling kqueue > > "overengineered", and what he is proposing is something that is > >

Re: kqueue microbenchmark results

2000-12-07 Thread David Malone
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 05:01:17PM -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > I'd love to do that, but am not quite sure how I'd go about it. > If you read the l-k mailing list, you'll see Linus calling kqueue > "overengineered", and what he is proposing is something that is > definitely not well thought out.

Re: kqueue microbenchmark results

2000-10-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Jonathan Lemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001025 15:02] wrote: > On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 11:54:57AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > moved to hackers, dropped linux-kernel and -chat. > > > > * Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001024 21:38] wrote: > > > Johnathan, > > > Thanks for running that test fo

Re: kqueue microbenchmark results

2000-10-25 Thread Jonathan Lemon
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 11:54:57AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > moved to hackers, dropped linux-kernel and -chat. > > * Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001024 21:38] wrote: > > Johnathan, > > Thanks for running that test for me! I've added your results > > (plus a cautionary note about microb

Re: kqueue microbenchmark results

2000-10-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
moved to hackers, dropped linux-kernel and -chat. * Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001024 21:38] wrote: > Johnathan, > Thanks for running that test for me! I've added your results > (plus a cautionary note about microbenchmarks and a link to > your site) to http://www.kegel.com/dkftpbench/Poller