Hi Mark,

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 02:18:00PM -0400, Mark Thomas wrote:

> How will this affect NetBSD 4?

Simply put it won't, although I may backport one or two minor items to
NetBSD 4.1 when 4.0 is out the door.

> What will this do for the current multicore cpu's and NetBSD?

For some types of workload SMP on NetBSD 4 is great with 2 to 4 cores. If
you're doing compute intensive work like compiling or number crunching
there's no problem. The problem lies with very I/O bound workloads and a
larger number of cores/threads/CPUs: it's inefficient. That's what I'll be
trying to address.

Andrew