Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 13:32:34 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Mohit Aron <aron@cs.rice.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: performance of FreeBSD-current as SMP Message-ID: <200001081832.NAA51499@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <200001081602.KAA11960@cs.rice.edu> References: <20000108134110.B442@cichlids.cichlids.com> <200001081602.KAA11960@cs.rice.edu>
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[Not network-related; moved to -current.] <<On Sat, 8 Jan 2000 10:02:25 -0600 (CST), Mohit Aron <aron@cs.rice.edu> said: > Good Lord! This is the second time now. I even SAID in my last two mails that > there is only ONE processor. Theortically then, FreeBSD configured with/without > SMP support shouldn't make any difference. Yes it should. SMP support enables inter-processor locking code which does not exist in non-SMP kernels. Ergo, non-SMP kernels run uniprocessor tasks faster. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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