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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 23:05:38 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.org>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!
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In-Reply-To: <39FF3F0B.81A1EE13@timpanogas.org>; from jmerkey@timpanogas.org on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 02:52:11PM -0700
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On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 02:52:11PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> The numbers don't lie.  You know where the code is.  You notice that
> there is a version of
> the kernel hand coded in assembly language.  You'l also noticed that
> it's SMP and takes ZERO LOCKS during context switching, in fact, most of
> the design is completely lockless.

I suspect most of the confusion in this thread comes because you seem to 
use a different definition of context switch than Ingo and others. Could
you explain what you exactly mean with a context switch ? 

-Andi
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