Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!

[Andi Kleen]

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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