From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Apr 21 14:50:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 868FC37B43C; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 14:50:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA02467; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 17:50:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.3/8.9.1) id f3LLo2611079; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 17:50:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15074.138.446582.781725@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 17:50:02 -0400 (EDT) To: John Baldwin Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP is stable now. Whee! :) In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John Baldwin writes: > Hey all. > > Drew, Doug, and I have finally gotten this thing mostly whipped. I haven't > done a buildworld yet, but I've built kernels and then booted them without any > problems. There are still some issues with some of the accounting on SMP > systems, but UP systems should run fine with the current set of outstanding > patches. I'd appreciate it if people could test the current set of patches. > You can find them at: > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/alpha.smp.patch > > So far this has been tested on a dual 4100 with both SMP and UP kernels. > Drew has found a problem with critical_enter/exit, but other than that I expect > it to run fine on SMP 2100's as well. Also, SMP is noticably faster than UP on > the 4100 I have here to test on at least, which is a good thing. :) > I'm happy to report that with this patchset, plus the cricical_enter/exit changes I just committed, a dual cpu 2100 made it through a buildworld last night just fine ;) Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message