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Date:      Sun, 29 Dec 2002 15:49:35 -0800 (PST)
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_smp.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212291541200.85347-100000@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021229172453.GA50460@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 03:53:00PM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote:
> > On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Jake Burkholder wrote:
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     sys/kern             subr_smp.c 
> > >   Log:
> > >   Add a tunable kern.smp.disabled for disabling explicitly smp on an smp
> > >   kernel.
> > >   
> > >   Revision  Changes    Path
> > >   1.171     +5 -1      src/sys/kern/subr_smp.c
> > 
> > Would love to see this go into RELENG_4 (and 5.0 for that matter).  This
> > would aid testing.
> 
> That would only help Alpha wouldn't it?  We don't have the ability to
> turn on and off SMP on i386.

It's never been possible to turn on smp after boot on FreeBSD.  This only
disables it at boot time and should work on every platform.

I'm not sure what facility this would use on 4.x since it doesn't have
loader tunables.  In any case, I'd like to see this in 5.0.

-Nate



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