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SubjectRe: Good point of Linux over Windows NT


On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Alan Cox wrote:

> > You are not talking to an NT supporter here. Linux SMP is in its
> > infancy. And NO thats not what async IO means. You have to give credit
>
> Linux SMP is quite nicely done for CPU intensive tasks. I/O intensive SMP
> is poor on the intel port (its quite passable on the sparc) We also have fully
^^^^^
> working async I/O. If you look at clone() and learn to use it right. Note that
> clone is so fast there isnt an overhead issue.

> Its not my fault you don't look very hard.
>
> Alan
>
>

We are not discussing architectures here but the fact that SMP on Linux
is in your own words "PASSABLE" - do you actually think that sounds
anywhere close to "TOP-NOTCH"???

Y

P.S. Is spinning in a tight loop in do_select() an example of async IO?


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