From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Oct 31 14:40: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (flutter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DF9337B663 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:40:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9VMdmu15780; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 23:39:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Chuck Paterson Cc: Bosko Milekic , Matt Dillon , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MP: per-CPU mbuf allocation lists In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:25:33 MST." <200010312225.PAA04504@berserker.bsdi.com> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 23:39:48 +0100 Message-ID: <15778.973031988@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message