Re: revivesa status 2008/07/09

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:44:32 -0400
Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:

> There's a lot of discussion about whether there are workloads for
> which SA beats our current threads, and I think that's a red herring
> (while also being an interesting technical discussion).  But, I'd
> expect that anyone who is interested in the question would want to
> see revivesa in tree so that one can benchmark with the same
> rest-of-kernel.
> 
> To me, the binary compatibility issue is the biggest one - while
> running 0.8 binaries is perhaps no longer important, 5.0 kernel on
> 4.0 userland is still relevant.
> 
Agreed. 


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb