Re: Anti-Linux SMP FUD
Chip Salzenberg (chip@perlsupport.com)
Sat, 30 Jan 1999 15:40:53 -0500
According to Dick Balaska:
> Also sprach Chip Salzenberg --- 02:16 PM 1/30/99 -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.
>
> It is just that, FUD.
> Here is an article "Linux and Samba kick NT's butt".
> http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,387506,00.html
> The article is not about SMP but shows general Linux I/O to be
> twice as fast as NT. (we already knew that :)
Yes, which means that the serialized read/write paths _are_ irrelevant.
Like I said. Right?
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