Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 23:47:24 -0400 From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org> To: Jon Reynolds <jonr@destar.net> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: smp in 5.0 Message-ID: <718973C9-842C-11D7-9929-0003939B3BD6@yumyumyum.org> In-Reply-To: <1052706765.1549.52.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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SMP has been available since 3.x if I remember correctly. The difference with 5.x is that they are pushing all locks on kernel data structures down into the kernel as far as possible. Right now in 4.x, there's just 1 lock, and it's around the entire kernel, so only one cpu can run the kernel at any 1 time. 5.x will allow different parts of the kernel to run on different cpu's. Ken On Sunday, May 11, 2003, at 10:32 PM, Jon Reynolds wrote: > I have read the release notes and not quite sure if it says what I > think > it does. Will SMP be available on 5.x series on? And are there ny > gotcha's to it? > -- > Jon Reynolds <jonr@destar.net> > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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