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To: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com>
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Subject: Re: Unix/NT synchronization model (was: SMP progress?) 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 16:24:35 -0700
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>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.)

   What do you mean by "true symmetric MP"? The current stuff is "true SMP".
Just because it is coarse-grained, doesn't mean it isn't SMP.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project