Date: Thu, 04 Dec 97 01:00:40 -0800 From: "Studded" <Studded@dal.net> To: "dg@root.com" <dg@root.com> Cc: "FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG" <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 3.0 -release ? Message-ID: <199712040901.BAA02517@mail.san.rr.com>
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On Thu, 04 Dec 1997 00:01:22 -0800, David Greenman wrote: > What we have now is pretty bad for just about everything and might >actually be slower on a two CPU machine for things that spend their >time mostly in the kernel (like Internet servers). There are two things >that need to be done: locks need to be pushed down so that we have at >least per-subsystem locking (networking, filesystems, VM system, etc), >and we need to rewrite the scheduler for process affinity. With those >two things working reliably, I would consider the SMP implementation not >finished, but releasable as a first cut. During the 2.2.5-Beta cycle some ideas like this were kicked around, but discussion was put on hold. Is it possible to put this on a more formal schedule? I think we would gain a lot by coming out with a "practice release" of -Current that has known bugs/conflicts ironed out, and SMP code that at least wasn't likely to make things worse. :) I know several adventurous people that would put SMP code on production machines if they had a reasonable assurance that it would be (at least mostly) stable. We could use the feedback from people who are using the thing in a production environment, and garner some good pre-publicity. I'm sure I'm not saying anything new, my point is simply that this would be a well-received project. :) I think we can all see the SMP writing on the wall, it would be nice to be ahead of the curve. Doug *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 4,168 clients and still growing. :-) *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) *** Part of the DALnet IRC network ***
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