Subject: Re: Are there any known problems with uvm or pmap in -current as of about Oct. 16?
To: James Chacon <jchacon@genuity.net>
From: Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 11/05/2001 08:02:54
I sent mail to tsubai asking about that.
we should let him decide when it's ready
since the port is his responsibility after all.

-Chuck


On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 08:34:22AM -0500, James Chacon wrote:
> Any reason not to make this the default in GENERIC for now?
> 
> James
> 
> >
> >hi,
> >
> >matt and I spent a bunch of time working on the NEWPMAP problems today,
> >and we found and fixed several bugs.  our stress-test was "make -j 20" in
> >a kernel build dir.  when we started this morning, it took about 30 seconds
> >to trigger one of the assertions.  a few minutes ago a test run completed
> >without a problem after 60 minutes.
> >
> >at this point the new pmap appears to be much more stable than the old one,
> >so I recommend that everyone turn on "options NEWPMAP" if you haven't
> >done so already.
> >
> >-Chuck