From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Sep 1 22:25:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA15433 for smp-outgoing; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 22:25:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (Ilsa.StevesCafe.com [205.168.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA15422 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 22:25:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA27888 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 23:25:02 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199709020525.XAA27888@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 From: Steve Passe To: smp@freebsd.org Subject: HEADS UP: good time to update. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 23:25:01 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I am close to finishing the removal of the giant lock on regular (ie non-FAST) INTerrupts. This is likely to cause some new bugs during its shakeout period. Recent reports are that the current SMP code is fairly stable (except for that Fatal trap 12 problem). So it might be a good time to update. In particular the current code seems to be a big win for sio and IDE. -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD