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Subject: Re: ARM SMP is ready for prime time on FreeBSD
From: Zbigniew Bodek <zbb@freebsd.org>
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2014-04-04 23:11 GMT+02:00 Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>:
> Thanks to the contributions of many dedicated freebsd-arm hackers over
> the past few months, it looks like SMP is now solid enough for everyday
> use.  SMP has been "kinda working" for a while, but I think the pmap
> fixes we've been working on for the past few weeks have made things
> pretty robust.  I've had continuous stress-testing on running on dual
> and quad-core boards with a multi-threaded app that maxes out all the
> cores with heavy floating point and network IO and haven't had any app
> crashes or kernel panics for a couple weeks.
>
> I've updated the kernel configs for the platforms I know have multiple
> cores, as of r264138.
>
> -- Ian
>

Great work guys. Thank you.

Best regards
zbb