Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Anti-Linux SMP FUD | Date | Sat, 30 Jan 1999 21:39:35 +0000 (GMT) |
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> > Here is an article "Linux and Samba kick NT's butt". > > http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,387506,00.html > > The article is not about SMP but shows general Linux I/O to be > > twice as fast as NT. (we already knew that :) > > Yes, which means that the serialized read/write paths _are_ irrelevant. > Like I said. Right?
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.
Alan
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