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Subject: Re: SMP kernel: FreeBSD vs. Linux 2.4.x
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 18:57:38 +0200
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Le Friday 09 August 2002 18:44, Kevin A. Pieckiel a écrit :
>
> A few questions on this issue.  First, what was the reasoning behind making
> the whole kernel a critical code segment?  I can't think of any reason

this was not a "design choice" : it was simply the easiest and fastest way to 
morph the historic BSD kernel into an SMP beast (the traditional Unix kernel 
has many places where it assumes it runs on only one processor : using a BGL 
allows recycling the old kernel code)

[SNIP flame bait]
>
> Second, what are KSEs?

do you know what the purpose of Google is ?
<http://www.google.fr/search?q=kse+freebsd+threads&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=fr&meta=>

[SNIP another whine]

	TfH

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