Re: differences in between 2.0 and 2.1 SMP?

Chris Wedgwood (cw@ix.net.nz)
Tue, 24 Nov 1998 18:16:22 +1300


On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 05:34:22PM +0000, root wrote:

> 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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