From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Jun 20 12:44: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC5E037B5BC for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 12:43:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA41581; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 13:43:46 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id NAA71681; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 13:42:17 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200006201942.NAA71681@harmony.village.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: SMP discussion moving to freebsd-smp Cc: mjacob@feral.com, Matthew Dillon , freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jun 2000 21:34:51 +0200." <55236.961529691@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <55236.961529691@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 13:42:17 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <55236.961529691@critter.freebsd.dk> Poul-Henning Kamp writes: : The meaning here is: No, it can't be basically useless for months : on end, but yes, it may be dead for days or maybe even a week. Yes. I agree. I have no problems with it being bolluxed up for 1 day or 1 week or even if it will gain us a lot, 2 weeks. Beyond that, it becomes too painful for me to use the tree. I susepct others would agree with threasholds in this general area, some tigheter some looser. : I think I will agree that requiring UP to compile and work (for : the regular -current definition of "work") for at leat 80-90% : of the days is not an unreasonable requirement. Yes. I object to having the tree be unusable for development work for "on the order of months" with no clear plan. It has taken me too many messages to reach this one sentence summary. Sorry about that. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message