A Brief History of Linux SMP
- In the beginning there wasn't any.
- 2.0: First support of any kind, on Intel ("give me a motherboard and 6 months...")
- Single global kernel lock (ugh), but it worked
- 2.2: Much better support, more platforms working
- Key fine-grained locking for device interrupts, scheduling, signals
- Support for Sparc and Alpha SMP
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