From owner-freebsd-smp Fri Mar 5 22: 2:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from iquest3.iquest.net (iquest3.iquest.net [209.43.20.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D4E5915108 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 22:01:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@y.dyson.net) Received: (qmail 24227 invoked from network); 6 Mar 1999 06:01:18 -0000 Received: from dyson.iquest.net (HELO y.dyson.net) (198.70.144.127) by iquest3.iquest.net with SMTP; 6 Mar 1999 06:01:18 -0000 Received: (from toor@localhost) by y.dyson.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id BAA00476; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 01:01:16 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199903060601.BAA00476@y.dyson.net> Subject: Re: why vm is rewriten much? In-Reply-To: from Matt Liu at "Mar 5, 99 11:14:01 am" To: MattL@ModaCAD.com (Matt Liu) Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 01:01:16 -0500 (EST) Cc: smp@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Matt Liu said: > Hi guys: > > One of the question is pondering on me is that why the Mach vm is much > changed. From what version it's changed, is it from 2.2.8, 2.2.7. Look like > 2.2.5 isn't changed much. I heard Mach vm support SMP. > UNIX/NT ADM > @ModaCad Inc. > > A Berkeley follower > The MACH VM needed work to efficiently implement the requirements for UNIX. There is a huge improvement in performance over the original code. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message