Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 15:35:08 -0700 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org> To: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com> Cc: smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix/NT synchronization model (was: SMP progress?) Message-ID: <1926.833927708@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Jun 1996 15:25:10 PDT." <199606042225.PAA15769@kithrup.com>
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In message <199606042225.PAA15769@kithrup.com>, Sean Eric Fagan writes: > >Okay, so that's an extremely short-ranged goal ;). But I don't expect true >symmetric MP to be happening for quite some time yet -- there's just too >much that would have to be changed. (Locks around nearly every structure >reference in the kernel, for example.) And it may not actually >improve< performance to do so... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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