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Date:      Wed, 03 Dec 1997 18:32:07 -0700
From:      Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>
To:        asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
Cc:        dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, grog@lemis.com, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.0 -release ? 
Message-ID:  <199712040132.SAA10469@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Dec 1997 17:23:34 PST." <199712040123.RAA09223@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> 

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Satoshi,

>  * From: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>
> 
>  * SMP is definately NOT ready for prime-time.  I'm going to be spending most
>  * of december working on it, my goal is to hash out a design for "the real
>  * thing".  Some major design changes to the kernel will be necessary, there's
>  * likely to be blood on the floor b4 we're done...  Tune in to smp@freebsd.org
>  * to participate in the discussions.
> 
> Oops, sorry.  Obviously my impression has been wrong.

Perhaps I overstated the issue, I get up times of many weeks on my dual P6
here that is used as a development system.  Obviously many others are also
using SMP for real work.  But the efficiency just isn't there yet.  We
would bench very poorly against a good SMP system, and thats what needs
improvement b4 we go prime-time with SMP.

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