RE: OFFTOPIC: Regarding NT vs Linux
Michael Nelson (mikenel@netcom.com)
Sat, 20 Sep 1997 14:09:35 -0400
On Saturday, September 20, 1997 11:45 AM, Rogier Wolff
[SMTP:R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl] wrote:
| Andreas Kostyrka wrote:
| >
| > On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Sachin Garg wrote:
| >
| > > What I would like to know is how much of this hype surrounding NT is
| > > true?
| > > Guys talk about NT supporting SMP on upto 4 processors and enterprise
| > > version upto 8 processors. What is Linux's limit of SMP, if any? NT runs
| > Win/NT SMP sucks. C't (a german magazine tested SMP boxes) found, that it
| > doesn't scale very much, because it seems that interrupts are done only on
| > one processor. Linux 2.0/SMP sucks probably even more :(, as it has a
| > global spin lock :(((((
|
| The thing is, that NT has been like this for a few years now, and
| Linux will eliminate the global spin lock before the end of the year.....
The thing is, it depends on the HAL for your machine. NT is perfectly capable
of handling interrupts on all processors if your HAL supports it (the MPS
1.1/1.4 HAL does AFAIK).
-mike