Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 21:25:07 -0700 From: Jim Pirzyk <jim@pirzyk.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU> Cc: Jim Pirzyk <pirzyk@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf options.i386 src/sys/i386/conf NOTES src/sys/i386/include atomic.h Message-ID: <200210152125.08142.jim@pirzyk.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210151823350.81042-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210151823350.81042-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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On Tuesday 15 October 2002 06:23 pm, Julian Elischer wrote:
> How many SMP vmware's have you seen?
>
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Lars Eggert wrote:
> > Jim Pirzyk wrote:
> > > pirzyk 2002/10/14 12:33:12 PDT
> > >
> > > Modified files:
> > > sys/conf options.i386
> > > sys/i386/conf NOTES
> > > sys/i386/include atomic.h
> > > Log:
> > > Add a knob to turn on and off the CMPXCHG instruction on > i386 IA32
> > > systems. This is most beneficial for vmware client os installs.
> >
> > Setting this option in an SMP kernel makes it die a horrible death
> > during boot.
Are you setting this on the host OS or the guest OS's kernel? This is only
for the guest OS (ie running within vmware). Checking the VmWare
web site, the make no mention of SMP Virtual Machines (they always
talk about processor, not processors).
- JimP
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