From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 2 17:52:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA07519 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:52:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA07458 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:51:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.com [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 0y9gpz-0005Qa-00; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:49:43 -0800 Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:49:40 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: "John S. Dyson" cc: Terry Lambert , smp@csn.net, opsys@mail.webspan.net, jak@cetlink.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? In-Reply-To: <199803022311.SAA14774@dyson.iquest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, John S. Dyson wrote: > > I think whatever is released should support low granularity SMP, at > > the very least. I would be *very* unhappy with having to bump the > > version number to 4.0 in the process (it implies too long a time frame, > > and it's frankly too large a number to allow the software to appear > > trustworthy, IMO. Cv: SVR4). > > > Well, think of it like this: > 3.0 simple SMP. > 3.1 much better SMP. How is it that Linux has moved so much faster in this area? Or have they? It seems to me that they even have kernel threading too, although it seems to me that their threads are a bit heavy (almost pseudo-processes). > -- > 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. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message