Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 30 Jan 1999 15:40:53 -0500 | From | Chip Salzenberg <> | Subject | Re: Anti-Linux SMP FUD |
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According to Dick Balaska: > Also sprach Chip Salzenberg --- 02:16 PM 1/30/99 -0500 > >According to Matthew Kirkwood: > >> A lot of kernel calls are still serialised (the read and write paths, for > >> example), but work to reduce this is proceeding [...] > > > >Really? I thought it was simply irrelevant, as long as the path from > >syscall -> FS -> I/O is short enough. > > It is just that, FUD. > 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? -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com> "When do you work?" "Whenever I'm not busy."
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