Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 30 Jan 1999 10:09:46 -0800 (PST) | From | "Gregory R. Warnes" <> | Subject | Anti-Linux SMP FUD |
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OK. It seems that a prominant companies field rep has read some of the linux FUD and believed it:
> My limited understanding of Linux is: > > A. The kernel doesn't implement kernel-mode threads. > B. With Linux, the scheduler can't preempt the kernel, which is > needed for the scheduler to divide CPU time among the threads. > C. Lastly, with Linux, the kernel is not reentrant. In other > words, no matter how many processors are in a system, only one processor > can execute code at a time.
I know that these are certainly not true for 2.2.X. I seem to remember that there was a nice rebuttal of these points posted somewhere, anyone remember where?
-Greg
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