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List:       linux-smp
Subject:    Re: Current SMP-Efforts ?
From:       Jon Lewis <jlewis () inorganic5 ! fdt ! net>
Date:       1997-09-30 23:28:59
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On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Herbert Wengatz 2850 wrote:

> I'm just wandering, if there are any more efforts in Linux-SMP (especially x86) ?
> the last Entries on the Web-page from Alan Cox are more than 6 months old.

My guess is Alan has better things to do than maintain lots of web pages.

> So the question arises: Is Linux-SMP perfect ? Or is it dead ?

Perfect?  Probably not.  Usable?  Ask yoda.

 11:24pm  up 15 days,  9:31, 24 users,  load average: 0.24, 0.38, 0.32
CPUS:          2 
            SUM         P0         P1 
  0:  133009624  133009624          0   timer
  1:          8          8          0   keyboard
  2:          0          0          0   cascade
  8:          0          0          0 + rtc
 10:  122686710  122686710          0   SMC Ultra
 11:   15312009   15312009          0 + BusLogic BT-948
 13:   29902281    8331624   21570657 + IPI
LCK:  343537772 2891768632 1746736436   spins from int
LCK: 3867950182  901057868 2966892314   spins from syscall
LCK: 1028697544 2639845511 2683819329   spins from sysidle
IDLE  243654859  122700513  120954346   idle ticks
IPI:   29902281   received

Yoda's been running 2.0.31-pre9-SMP more than 2 weeks...and judging from
the number of timer ints vs. SMC ints, it's not exactly an idle system.

Yoda's a dual P150 mail/shell/web server for around 2k users.

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