Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Feb 1999 16:52:36 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Anti-Linux SMP FUD |
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On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 09:39:35PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Partly the paths are nothing like as serialized as you might think. > Sct has also done some patches (which DaveM then extended a lot) to > drop kernel locks during cached data copies too.
Something I see often, is that having two processes running on an SMP box, accessing different devices, on different spindles -- when one process is writing data out, the other pretty much blocks in a D state.
This is frustrating to say the least and I haven't the faintest idea on how I might fix this.....
-cw
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