____/ [H]omer on Saturday 01 September 2007 02:09 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> Those Dang DPCs Clogging the MMCSS [or "Why Vista Scheduling is Broken"]
>>
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>> | Critical optimizations such as zero-copy aside, there is no excusable
>> | reason why processing IP packets should so damagingly affect the system.
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | Putting aside the larger problem for the moment, there are several issues
>> | with this solution. It prioritizes multimedia playback over networking
>> | performance, which, as the resulting clamor has shown, is not everyone's
>> | personal policy preference. It is almost assuredly a layering violation.
>> | It picks a fixed and hard-coded packet limit (ten per millisecond), which
>> | won't scale across different hardware—think significantly faster
>> | processors or substantially slower networking drivers. It ignores the
>> | commonality of GigE. And, finally, the solution is complicated, as the
>> | convoluted description and resulting bugs in the implementation
>> | demonstrate.
>> `----
>
> IOW after more than twenty years, Microsoft /still/ can't do a decent
> kernel, and /still/ can't do networking.
Worse---they discriminate.
Entire city of Vista users can't access the internet
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| Lundis Energi blamed Microsoft because Vista has got a bug and it isn't going
| to change the configuration of the server just to cope with the flaw.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42043
Some will blame Linux for Vista's bugs. Wait and watch. This story has only
just emerged and it's being translated and brought to English press.
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~~ Best of wishes
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