Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:18:15 -0500 From: Jim Bryant <kc5vdj@yahoo.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Headsup! KSE Nay-sayers speak up! Message-ID: <3B8AAB07.6040508@yahoo.com> References: <66544.998934042@critter>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <3B89DF04.F6A250F9@elischer.org>, Julian Elischer writes: > > >>I am ready to do my megga-commit to add the first stage of KSE-threading support >>to >>the kernel. If there is any argument as to the wisdom of this move, >>then this is the time to speak up! >> > > I say "No, not yet". > > Not yet, because in practice nobody has been running your patches yet. > > Not yet, because we have seen no quantified performance impact numbers > (yes, I'm trying to arrange to help you produce these but on a P5/133 > things are _S_L_O_W_! > > Not yet, because I seriously doubt if anybody has had any time to review > and reflect on the way you have gone around and done things. > > Not yet, because there are, as I understand it, unresolved issues with KAME. > > Not yet, because you are generalizing from only one platform, get at least > alpha working first. > > So I propose: > > Put up your patches in a highly visible place and advertise them on > -current, -arch and -smp. > > Once at least 5 developers have publically said "I'm running these > patches on my -current machine(s) and it doesn't totally hose me" > and at least 3 of those machines are SMP and one is non-i386 > architecture, then call for "last orders before commit". If Julian can guarantee it won't hose me completely from the get-go, count me as a tester. The box I would be testing this on is SMP, albeit, intel. jim -- ET has one helluva sense of humor! He's always anal-probing right-wing schizos! _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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