Re: [aclug-L] ntmag

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom Hull <thull@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> Have you seen any good write-ups either exactly what has been done to
> speed up SMP in 2.2 (possibly including reasons for not doing things --

The mean speedup for SMP in 2.2 deals with locking.  Specifically,
certain parts of any kernel must not be run simultaneously.  2.0 had a 
lock for the entire kernel; the locking in 2.2 is much more
fine-grained.  This will not impact things that do pure computation or 
require few kernel services, but for things like network servers that
use lots of kernel services, it can be important.

-- John