Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 17:50:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP is stable now. Whee! :) Message-ID: <15074.138.446582.781725@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010420190822.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <XFMail.010420190822.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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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
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