Subject: Re: SMP support
To: Guenther Grau <Guenther.Grau@bk.bosch.de>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/09/1998 13:14:12
Guenther Grau writes:
> "Perry E. Metzger" wrote:
> > Guenther Grau writes:
> > > NetBSD-current does not yet support SMP. Work is underway
> > > to implement kernel threads, which are mostly running, AFAIK.
> > 
> > That is perhaps over-optimistic...
> 
> Oops, I didn't know that. I thought Jason had already turned
> the reaper thread which cleans up the zombies into a kernel
> thread, but it seems I am wrong :-(

It is a thread of execution that runs in the kernel, but that isn't
entirely relevant to the work in question.

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