Re: Kernel threads and SMP programming

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri Oct 24 2003 - 04:02:38 EST


Em Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:55:49AM +0200, Emmanuel Fleury escreveu:
> The truth is that I have a piece of code running in the kernel which is
> performing OK when running on a mono-processor and which is just a
> disaster on SMP... (about 10 time slower).
>
> I'm trying to understand the reason of this, so even out dated
> documentation is welcome (the concept can be more important than the
> details).

So take a look also at:

http://lwn.net/Articles/driver-porting/

This is a series of very good articles by Jonathan Corbet, some related
to SMP.

- Arnaldo
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