On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 08:36:59PM -0800, Me at IO wrote: > I'm just guessing here, but I imagine most CPU effort wouldn't be > expended in the actual kernel<->user transitions that are polls and > non-blocking I/O. And the meat of those operations could be handled by > other CPUs at the kernel level. So that separation onto multiple > CPUs might not help much.
Eh, I was on crack when I wrote this. You want an I/O thread per CPU when you can get it.
