Re: Ideas for v2.1

Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Tue, 11 Jun 1996 17:30:35 +0100 (BST)

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> terms right?). I'm not sure on the current SMP status, but at a
> glance it appears only one process can be execuing in kernel space
> at any given time. Maybe this extension would only be worth the over-
> head when parts of the kernel become multi-threaded.

Have to try it and see. For P6 there is an L2 cache per CPU so locality
is a big win.

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