Subject: Re: SMP/flogging a dead horse
To: Justin T. Gibbs <gibbs@plutotech.com>
From: Jim Wise <jwise@unicast.com>
List: current-users
Date: 08/31/1998 23:59:07
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On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:

>>	* The current goal is to get a multi-threaded kernel going
>>	  first, and then allow scheduling of kernel and user
>>	  space threads across multiple processors.  Specific
>>	  mention was made of the fact that the FreeBSD project
>>	  took approximately the opposite approach, and is running
>>	  into trouble trying to integrate a multi-threaded kernel
>>	  into thir SMP work.
>
>There hasn't even been an attempt to go to a fully multi-threaded kernel in
>FreeBSD, yet, so I don't see how we could have run into trouble already.

OK, that's fair.  The misunderstanding here was almost certainly my
own...

- -- 
				Jim Wise
				jwise@unicast.com

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