From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 11 21:21: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from portnoy.lbl.gov (portnoy.lbl.gov [131.243.2.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A766737B789 for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 21:20:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jin@portnoy.lbl.gov) Received: (from jin@localhost) by george.lbl.gov () id VAA27127; Thu, 11 May 2000 21:20:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 21:20:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Jin Guojun (FTG staff) Message-Id: <200005120420.VAA27127@george.lbl.gov> To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com Subject: Re: kernel SMP thread Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I asked a question "Is FreeBSD working on SMP thread?" at both USENIX > > and FreeBSDcon last year, you answered that it is already in the kernel, > > but there is no API for userland. Maybe we misunderstund each other :-( > > I answered that we had *kernel* threads but that there was no native > API yet, just the "linuxthreads" kernel thread API. Actual SMP-capable > kernel threads remain a pipe dream for us, however. Want to work > on it? :-) Ok, I probably missed the last sentence. Anyway, if I were knowledgeable and good on SMP thread architecture, I would not ask the question :-) But if people want a team, I can help in some part. Once I can launch OC-12 driver for FreeBSD, and go for 3rd generation network architecture, I will defininately need and work on SMP thread more or less. Thanks, -Jin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message