smp in 5.0

[Kenneth Culver]

SMP has been available since 3.x if I remember correctly. The 
difference with 5.x is that they are pushing all locks on kernel data 
structures down into the kernel as far as possible. Right now in 4.x, 
there's just 1 lock, and it's around the entire kernel, so only one cpu 
can run the kernel at any 1 time. 5.x will allow different parts of the 
kernel to run on different cpu's.

Ken
On Sunday, May 11, 2003, at 10:32  PM, Jon Reynolds wrote:

> I have read the release notes and not quite sure if it says what I 
> think
> it does. Will SMP be available on 5.x series on? And are there ny
> gotcha's to it?
> -- 
> Jon Reynolds <jonr at destar.net>
>
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