Re: Multithreaded TCP/IP stack

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Jul 13 2000 - 16:20:44 EDT

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    > A friend of mine is critical of linux for not having a multithreaded
    > TCP/IP stack. Is that true? If it is not then what kernel version

    The tx path and irq path have been multithreaded since 0.97 I believe.
    The receive path in userspace likewise. The receive stuff running in
    interrupt and post irq context is fully SMP multithreaded in 2.4test

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