Subject: Re: When SMP in formal release? Which OS? Virtual mailboxes
To: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon@widomaker.com>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/04/2002 10:34:52
Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Do you see this release as being better than early SMP code for Linux
> and FreeBSD?  In other words, is this likely to be a release that has
> learned lessons from those implementations, so will likely be fairly good?

Well, the MP is currently still Big Lock SMP ("you gotta learn to
walk before you learn to run"). Otherwise, the MP issues are hashed
quite well already, so it should be fairly stable.

Jaromir
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Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org> http://www.NetBSD.org/Ports/i386/ps2.html
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