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From: Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>
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> 
>    Uh, that's not what happens. There's a single copy of the kernel, but only
> one CPU may execute the kernel at a time. The lock is at the outer-most
> boundry of the kernel.
> 

there i go wishing for finer grained locking.  someday.


b3n