From owner-cvs-all Sun Dec 29 15:49:41 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2489D37B405 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 15:49:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CDFCE43EA9 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 15:49:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 85633 invoked by uid 1000); 29 Dec 2002 23:49:35 -0000 Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 15:49:35 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson To: David O'Brien Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_smp.c In-Reply-To: <20021229172453.GA50460@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message