Re: Anti-Linux SMP FUD

Chip Salzenberg (chip@perlsupport.com)
Sat, 30 Jan 1999 14:16:20 -0500

According to Matthew Kirkwood:
> A lot of kernel calls are still serialised (the read and write paths, for
> example), but work to reduce this is proceeding [...]

Really? I thought it was simply irrelevant, as long as the path from
syscall -> FS -> I/O is short enough.

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Chip Salzenberg      - a.k.a. -      <chip@perlsupport.com>
      "When do you work?"   "Whenever I'm not busy."


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