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. -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD
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