From owner-cvs-all Sun Dec 29 16:34:23 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 16EB737B401; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 16:34:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from k6.locore.ca (k6.locore.ca [198.96.117.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5293043EB2; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 16:34:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jake@k6.locore.ca) Received: from k6.locore.ca (jake@localhost.locore.ca [127.0.0.1]) by k6.locore.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBU0pTuP058044; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 19:51:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jake@k6.locore.ca) Received: (from jake@localhost) by k6.locore.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBU0pSP7058043; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 19:51:28 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 19:51:28 -0500 From: Jake Burkholder To: Nate Lawson Cc: "David O'Brien" , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_smp.c Message-ID: <20021229195127.I43538@locore.ca> References: <20021229172453.GA50460@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from nate@root.org on Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 03:49:35PM -0800 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 Apparently, On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 03:49:35PM -0800, Nate Lawson said words to the effect of; > 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. If you will verify that this works on x86 I will mfc it. I have no idea if it will work or not. Jake To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message