Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 14:43:39 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: FreeBSD current users <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: small scheduler hack/patch Message-ID: <20030710214339.GA48547@ns1.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <20030711070631.C27297@gamplex.bde.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0307101056420.40558-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <20030711070631.C27297@gamplex.bde.org>
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On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 07:21:16AM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > have MD definitions. Its first arg has type u_int64_t on ia64's and > u_int on other arches. This is bogus for ia64's since subr_smp.c uses > u_int for all bitmaps of CPUs, so systems with more than 32 CPUs cannot > actually work. The bogosity is in MI code. Not being able to support 64-way (or higher) XYZ machines because MI code uses 32-bit bitmaps is wrong. Both the type and the access to it should be abstracted in MI code to allow for compound types. Much akin to sigset_t. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net
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