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Date:      Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:34:55 -0700
From:      "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com>
To:        "Rik van Riel" <riel@conectiva.com.br>, "Dennis" <dennis@etinc.com>
Cc:        "Alfred Perlstein" <bright@wintelcom.net>, "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: SMP in 2.4 (fwd)
Message-ID:  <007f01c0c8f7$0d2e7680$015778d8@sherline.net>
References:  <5.0.2.1.0.20010418190439.03633920@mail.etinc.com> <5.0.2.1.0.20010419114632.03cacdd0@mail.etinc.com>

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> I didnt say they shouldnt support SMP, only that complicating the OS with
> highly SMP-specific code to make it slightly more efficient when 99% of
> users dont need it is a questionable endeavor.

Are you high ?  What are you smoking ?

There are MANY people that use SMP, and for some of us, SMP is the choice
factor between FreeBSD and OpenBSD.  I find Linux SMP vs Win2k SMP vs
FreeBSD SMP to be an important subject in enterprise class servers.

> Your point is moot, as you already have SMP support. The question is
> whether squeezing a few extra cycles out  (SMPng) is worth making the OS
> significantly more complex, particularly when more computing power is
> always on the way.

Much of the code is being simplified and cleaned up.  And it's not a "few
extra cycles".



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