Re: Kernel preemption, yes or no? (was: Filesystem gets a hugeperformance boost)

[E.B. Dreger]

> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 19:34:56 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> Yes.  Also NICs usually have circular buffers for packets so, really,
> only one cpu can be processing a particular NIC's packets at any given
> moment.

We could always have a mutex for each NIC's ring buffer...

*ducking and running*

Sorry... couldn't resist. :-)


Eddy

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