From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 27 13:40:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp018.mail.yahoo.com (smtp018.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7E5A537B401 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 13:40:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kc5vdj@yahoo.com) Received: from mkc-65-28-47-209.kc.rr.com (HELO yahoo.com) (65.28.47.209) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Aug 2001 20:40:26 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3B8AB039.7090705@yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:40:25 -0500 From: Jim Bryant Reply-To: kc5vdj@yahoo.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean Chittenden Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Julian Elischer , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Headsup! KSE Nay-sayers speak up! References: <3B89DF04.F6A250F9@elischer.org> <66544.998934042@critter> <20010827133112.B79584@rand.tgd.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sean Chittenden wrote: >>>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 have one system that I've been maintaining/updating since the > 2.X days and I feel it's time to nuke it and start over. +1 for a > non-smp system and SMP system. > > That said, I think the value of having both KSE and SMPng in 5.0 > is HUGE and I think there is probably a large number of people that > would be willing to endure kernel panics, dumps, etc. because the value > (in terms of technological accomplishment and saleability in the > corporate space) would be absolutely worth the bumpy road. -CURRENT > isn't worth tracking unless the dumps, bugs, etc are all going toward > both SMPng and KSE. Hey, anyone running -current without a tape drive attached with a daily dump schedule is either insane, a masochist, or both. Read my post from this morning about the mysterious filesystem corruption I had this morning... Kudos to Justin Gibbs for fixing EOM detection [let's get his scsi_sa.c patches committed ASAP]!!! > If there are grave concerns about having KSE and SMPng in 5.X, > then why not push back the release date? The value far outweighs the > extra months needed to get it finished and out the door, but what do I > know, I'm just a quiet kernel by standard making an observation. -sc Good idea. 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