Re: OFFTOPIC: Regarding NT vs Linux
Michael Nelson (mikenel@netcom.com)
Tue, 23 Sep 1997 08:20:23 PDT
On Sep 23, 8:27am, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
} Subject: Re: OFFTOPIC: Regarding NT vs Linux {linux-kernel}
} From: Andreas Kostyrka <andreas@ag.or.at>
} To: Sachin Garg <sachin@cdacb.ernet.in>
} cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List at VGER <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
} Subject: Re: OFFTOPIC: Regarding NT vs Linux
}
} Win/NT SMP sucks. C't (a german magazine tested SMP boxes) found, that
} it doesn't scale very much, because it seems that interrupts are done
} only on one processor. Linux 2.0/SMP sucks probably even more :(, as it
} has a global spin lock :(((((
}
} I was under the impression (from reading on the smp list) that NT 4.0 spread
} the interrupts over the CPU's?
It does if the HAL for your architecture supports it.
-mike