Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 14:59:46 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP is stable now. Whee! :) Message-ID: <XFMail.010421145946.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <15074.138.446582.781725@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On 21-Apr-01 Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > 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 ;) Woo! The dual 4100 here is still cranking through a -j 8 world. > Drew -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.Baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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