Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 17:32:29 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: erich@uruk.org Cc: terry@lambert.org, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running SMP Message-ID: <199607050032.RAA13959@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199607050011.RAA12069@uruk.org> from "erich@uruk.org" at Jul 4, 96 05:11:47 pm
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> It's still important to get the details on FreeBSD-SMP's model of how > it uses the x86 data structures such as the TSS. Getting an accurate > image of this is particularly important to how the > 2 CPU generalization > goes (i.e. what static data is really necessary here... allocating > something upwards of 64K per CPU statically at compile-time would be > very annoying). I still haven't looked through that part yet, admittedly. > > Linux-SMP has one GDT with one TSS per process, simply guaranteeing that > no more than one processor will access any particular TSS at a time. > > Could someone comment on how FreeBSD currently does this in more detail ? David? John? Pohl? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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