> it seems to me that only one of the CPUs can execute the kernel
> code... is that correct?
for 2.0.x yes -- 2.1.x two (or more) CPUs in the kernel context for
some operations (althouh some stuff like the filesystem still uses a
global lock because its not yet thread-safe)
-cw
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