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Date:      Tue, 26 May 1998 11:56:23 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        Pierre.Dampure@barclayscapital.com (Dampure Pierre-Yves: IT)
Cc:        kpielorz@tdx.co.uk, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Error building 'cvsup' on 3.0-CURRENT as of 24th May,1998
Message-ID:  <199805261656.LAA19888@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <711DCB8FB391D111B9DD00805F8BDDBA7262F6@exips0019.itops.ldn.bzwint.com> from "Dampure, Pierre-Yves: IT" at "May 26, 98 03:11:00 pm"

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> 
> This has been the case for a while now -- at least if you are running on an
> SMP kernel. John Dyson and John Polstra are both aware of the issue, and
> John  Dyson pledged to look at it at some point Real Soon Now. If you are
> running SMP (and it looks your are, if you get this), you might want to try
> John Dyson's latest mods, posted (NOT CVSupped) yesterday. I have applied /
> make world w/ them and will attempt a Modula-3 rebuild tonight when back
> from work.
>
There have been some problems with my mods.  I have cleaned up some bugs,
and will be posting them again later on this week.  My biggest problem
officially committing the mods will be that I have no SMP P5 system
(nor do I want one :-)).  It will take a little bit of code review
to make sure that the code is P5 safe (I made some stupid assumptions
in my mods that the code is running on P6 machines.)

I believe that there are a few more bugs (even beyond my very stable
code -- there was a severe MI bug in my patches.)  This SMP stuff is trickier
than VM by far :-)...

At least I am learning enough about the SMP architecture to know where we
are, and know that it isn't precisely where we want to be :-).

John


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