Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Jan 1997 19:28:12 -0500 (EST) | From | yuri mironoff <> | Subject | Re: Good point of Linux over Windows NT |
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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"???
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P.S. Is spinning in a tight loop in do_select() an example of async IO?
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