From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 2 15:14:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA10730 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 15:14:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA10695 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 15:14:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA14780; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 18:14:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199803022314.SAA14780@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? In-Reply-To: <199803021654.JAA28772@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> from Steve Passe at "Mar 2, 98 09:54:58 am" To: smp@csn.net (Steve Passe) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 18:14:04 -0500 (EST) Cc: opsys@mail.webspan.net, toor@dyson.iquest.net, jak@cetlink.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Passe said: > > My suggestion (assumming no new major push REAL SOON) is to remove the > SMP support from 3.0 and make a release out of it (when all other things > are ready). Then continue SMP efforts in 4.0 At the very least the > experimental things defined in smptests.h need to either be incorporated > as default (most everything but PUSHDOWN_LEVELs 3 & 4), or removed > entirely ie. PUSHDOWN_LEVELs 3 & 4. These are my above mentioned attempts > to allow both CPUs in simultaniously. Its ugly code, and will never > be 'right'. > There are people who are getting use out of our "lame" SMP right now. I agree that the spl method of locking is loosing, and the mutex approach is better. At least you got us into the SMP world, and it is helping users, so no-one can really complain!!! -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message