> > Here is an article "Linux and Samba kick NT's butt".
> > http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,387506,00.html
> > The article is not about SMP but shows general Linux I/O to be
> > twice as fast as NT. (we already knew that :)
>
> Yes, which means that the serialized read/write paths _are_ irrelevant.
> Like I said. Right?
Partly the paths are nothing like as serialized as you might think. Sct has
also done some patches (which DaveM then extended a lot) to drop kernel locks
during cached data copies too.
Alan
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