Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 23:03:39 +0900 (JST) From: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> To: eadler@FreeBSD.org Cc: svn-doc-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-doc-all@FreeBSD.org, doc-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r41672 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq Message-ID: <20130519.230339.1158852939290775967.hrs@allbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201305190102.r4J12Uls013461@svn.freebsd.org> References: <201305190102.r4J12Uls013461@svn.freebsd.org>
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----Security_Multipart(Sun_May_19_23_03_39_2013_484)-- Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> wrote in <201305190102.r4J12Uls013461@svn.freebsd.org>: ea> Author: eadler ea> Date: Sun May 19 01:02:30 2013 ea> New Revision: 41672 ea> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/41672 ea> ea> Log: ea> Improve the smp-support question wording for the modern era. Indicate that certain ARM cpus may have issues. ea> ea> This is based on information and wording from gavin. ea> ea> Modified: ea> head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml ea> ea> Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml ea> ============================================================================== ea> --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Sun May 19 00:56:24 2013 (r41671) ea> +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Sun May 19 01:02:30 2013 (r41672) ea> @@ -1680,16 +1680,13 @@ ea> </question> ea> ea> <answer> ea> - <para>Symmetric multi-processor (SMP) systems are generally ea> - supported by &os;, although in some cases, BIOS or ea> - motherboard bugs may generate some problems.</para> ea> - ea> - <para>&os; will take advantage of HyperThreading (HTT) ea> - support on &intel; CPUs that support this feature. A kernel ea> - with the <literal>options SMP</literal> option, enabled ea> - by default, ea> - will automatically detect the additional logical ea> - processors.</para> ea> + <para>&os; supports Symmetric multi-processor (SMP) on all ea> + non-embedded platforms (e.g, i386, amd64/x86-64, ea> + ia64, sparc64, powerpc, powerpc64). SMP is also ea> + supported in arm and MIPS kernels, although some CPUs ea> + may not support this. &os;'s SMP implementation uses ea> + fine-grained locking, and performance scales nearly ea> + liniarly with number of CPUs.</para> &arch.*; should be used consistently for names of the platforms. And please do s/Symmetric/symmetric/ or capitalize all of the three words for SMP. -- Hiroki ----Security_Multipart(Sun_May_19_23_03_39_2013_484)-- Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAlGY27sACgkQTyzT2CeTzy05OACgtQJcPcqBy3+G7Wlzx5AU2Umo TKMAn1GBJmTRafdxBHTOyJ9NWhVlHlh+ =lcb1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----Security_Multipart(Sun_May_19_23_03_39_2013_484)----
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