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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!fido.asd.sgi.com!neteng!lm From: lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: This code is dedicated to John Dyson in Linux 2.0.30??? Date: 8 Apr 1997 22:00:22 GMT Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5ief5m$in0@fido.asd.sgi.com> References: <5ie49m$oke$1@rtpnews.raleigh.ibm.com> Reply-To: lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com NNTP-Posting-Host: neteng.engr.sgi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38750 Joerg Pommnitz (nobody@read.my.sig) wrote: : This is a comment from Linux 2.0.30. : Does anybody know what this means? : * David S. Miller : New socket lookup architecture for ISS. : * This code is dedicated to John Dyson. I think so, but mebbe you should ask David. I suspect it came from discussions that David had with John about scaling issues in Linux. John had pointed out that stuff like lmbench didn't stress the system like it would be stressed under load, which is true for 1.1, and David made some stress tests and found that indeed, John was right. So he started fixing it and the fix is dedicated to the person that pointed out the problem. Kudos to all involved. -- --- Larry McVoy lm@sgi.com http://reality.sgi.com/lm (415) 933-1804