From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 4 18:15:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BF6B16A40D; Thu, 4 May 2006 18:15:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from a50.ironport.com (a50.ironport.com [63.251.108.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDDEC43D45; Thu, 4 May 2006 18:15:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from unknown (HELO [10.251.19.131]) ([10.251.19.131]) by a50.ironport.com with ESMTP; 04 May 2006 11:15:18 -0700 Message-ID: <445A44B6.5080906@elischer.org> Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 11:15:18 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060414 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: SGI kernel braindump. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 18:15:25 -0000 One of the (ex) main developers for the SGI SMP scheduler and related fields has offered to do a brain dump, possibly with some of his ex-cohorts of what they learned in their efforts to make SGI's unix do good SMP scheduling. This would be in the guise of the July 5 BAFUG meeting, and would be webcast as usual, so People from all-over could attend. If we do this I'd like to make sure that there are enough interested people to make it worth the time of these people to go out of their way to collect together information and make presentations, and I'd also like to ask that interested people start thinking about quuestions they'd like to ask. I'd like to start by collecting questions ASAP so that I can forward them on to the speaker to help hi,m gather together information that would be useful for us. Let the comments and Questions come in please! Julian p.s. Last night's recordings of Alan Cox's and Nate Walker's talks will be put up for download in the next couple of days.