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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
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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.
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Larry McVoy     lm@sgi.com     http://reality.sgi.com/lm     (415) 933-1804