Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Jul 2000 07:30:56 +1200 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Multithreaded TCP/IP stack |
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On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 01:47:08PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Stephen Torri wrote:
> A friend of mine is critical of linux for not having a > multithreaded TCP/IP stack. Is that true? If it is not then > what kernel version introduced it. If it is then when should we > expect to see it? > > Stephen > This is cute. Could you ask your friend what a multi-threaded TCP/IP stack is?
His friend probably refers to the locking used by the stack and how much concurrency you'll get with multiple processors.
With 2.2.x most of the stack is under a single lock, with 2.4.x locking will be such that multiple processors can be in the stack at the same time (the performance should be much greater then under high load on big SMP boxes).
--cw
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