Re: tlug: dual-pentium processors

[Chris Sekiya <chris@example.com>]

On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Jonathan Byrne - 3Web wrote:

> How high is the overhead of achieving that on an Intel machine?

I don't have a measurement, but it's noticable.  (I'm supposed to be
benchmarking the linux SMP stuff later this week, so I will have real
numbers soon)

> Currently, Linux apparently only uses one CPU at a time, with A being
> locked out while B is doing something (although that is supposed to change).

???? This is not good.  I'm going to have to look at the 2.1 code and
verify that such is the case.

> By way of comparison, does NT handle that the same way, or is MS taking a
> different approach?

NT binds processes to processors, but inefficiently.

-- Chris

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