From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Nov 28 11: 3:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.iprg.nokia.com (mailhost.iprg.nokia.com [205.226.5.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 551CA37B400 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 11:03:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from darkstar.iprg.nokia.com (darkstar.iprg.nokia.com [205.226.5.69]) by mailhost.iprg.nokia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3-GLGS) with ESMTP id LAA21472; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 11:03:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by darkstar.iprg.nokia.com (8.11.0/8.11.0-DARKSTAR) id eASJ3h621434; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 11:03:43 -0800 X-Virus-Scanned: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 11:03:43 -0800 Nokia Silicon Valley Email Exploit Scanner Received: from dhcp-15-155.iprg.nokia.com (205.226.15.155, claiming to be "iprg.nokia.com") by darkstar.iprg.nokia.com(WTS.12.69) smtpdjDaDWg; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 11:02:13 PST Message-ID: <3A240337.D8109556@iprg.nokia.com> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 11:10:47 -0800 From: Michael Williams Organization: Nokia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Evans Cc: Julian Elischer , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Threads (KSE etc) comments References: <3A1B0B64.6D694248@elischer.org> <3A211C82.2464D07E@elischer.org> <20001127154800.M4140@canonware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FYI SPARC machines from Sun or Fujitsu do this both in h/w or just in software i.e. cpu_offline(). Michael Jason Evans wrote: One example of why enforcing KSE/KSEG limits could become hard in the future is if the number of processors is dynamic (i.e. processors can be added and removed). In discussions I've had with Mike Smith, this is a very real possibility, and is something we should keep in mind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message