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Date:      Tue, 31 Oct 2000 23:39:48 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Chuck Paterson <cp@bsdi.com>
Cc:        Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@dsuper.net>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MP: per-CPU mbuf allocation lists 
Message-ID:  <15778.973031988@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:25:33 MST." <200010312225.PAA04504@berserker.bsdi.com> 

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In message <200010312225.PAA04504@berserker.bsdi.com>, Chuck Paterson writes:
>	I would really really like to encourage anyone who wants
>to do this type of work to please first help get more stuff out
>from under Giant so we can start getting this thing to be act
>more like a SMP system and less like a MP system that can't take
>interrupts in the kernel.

I would tend to agree.  This is not the time for line by line
optimizations based on generated assembler code.  This is the time
to make sure things work, and to get them to work right.

*then* we will optimize the hell out of it :-)

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