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On Tue, 9 Jul 1996, Bruce Evans wrote:

> spl is probably fundamentally wrong for SMP.  I haven't thought much
> about what to use instead.

You might want to read "Unix Internals: The New Frontiers" by Uresh
Vahalia and "Unix Systems for Modern Architectures" by Curt Schimmel to
see the paths others have taken. 

-mike hancock