Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 22:48:19 -0700
   From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>

   Do you have kernel threads as Solaris does?

Yes we do have kernel threads.

   Do you have a thread safe SMP kernel as Solaris does?

(I think you meant a fine-grained kernel) No we do not.

   If not, would you be willing to lose this 6% performance advantage
   on single processor machines in order to acheive these goals?

Nope, and I can assure you once Linux has the missing link just
mentioned, we will not take this hit.  In fact I can doubly assure you
that we'll be much faster by then on both UP and SMP.

David S. Miller
davem@caip.rutgers.edu