> > > Such nonscaling is absolutely unacceptable to have around - so David S.
> > > Miller has SMP-scaled the networking code in 2.3 already - on my box and
> > > 2.3.9 TCP bandwith scales almost linearly on localhost - it shows almost
> > > no scaling on 2.2.10. (i do not have 4 100mbit ethernet connections - yet)
> >
> > I would imagine tcp scaling is more important to the clustering people.
>
> YES! Will the tcp/ethernet SMP scaling changes be back-ported to 2.2.x?
yes, all SMP changes in 2.3 will be backported to 2.2 in the next few
months, but to not confuse it with 2.2 it will be named '2.4' ;)
-- mingo
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