From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 26 20:47:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from barkley.vpha.health.ufl.edu (barkley.vpha.health.ufl.edu [159.178.78.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DADB37B41A for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 20:47:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from apache@localhost) by barkley.vpha.health.ufl.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1R4lET30409 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 23:47:14 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: barkley.vpha.health.ufl.edu: apache set sender to sridharv@ufl.edu using -f Received: from 66.157.148.102 ( [66.157.148.102]) as user sridharv@imap.ufl.edu by webmail.health.ufl.edu with HTTP; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 23:47:14 -0500 Message-ID: <1014785234.3c7c64d2ad999@webmail.health.ufl.edu> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 23:47:14 -0500 From: sridharv@ufl.edu To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: newbie SMP question MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.0 X-Originating-IP: 66.157.148.102 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have been trying to understand some basic SMP stuff( not specific to freebsd). I have a few real basic questions about OS support for SMP.Just to clarify- does the kernel run as various threads on each processor? Is the kernel stack the only non-shared entity among the various threads? I would also like to get a short intro in to interrupt handling ( atleast a good source of info for this , if there are any). I found some material on OS support for SMP , but they seem to be blurred with too many arch specific and OS specific details that I was missing the central idea. -sridhar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message