Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 21:48:16 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Subject: Re: SMP discussion moving to freebsd-smp Message-ID: <55396.961530496@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jun 2000 12:36:47 PDT." <200006201936.MAA88247@apollo.backplane.com>
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> I can produce a stable set of changes in the first patch set, but > the fact of the matter is that much of the work is going to entail > ripping out the SPL compatibility mechanisms one at a time and replacing > them with mutexes. This will be an ongoing process over the next 6 > months and that means that -current is going to be less stable for > the entire time -- for both the SP and MP builds. Right, and here I think we have the crux of the matter: There is a lot of water between: "doesn't build, doesn't run" and "always compiles, rock stable" And I think we can pressume that we'll end somewhere in the middle. I am sure that all members of the SMPng crowd understand that leaving the rest of the FreeBSD developers stranded for more than a few days (worst case a week) at a time is simply not a good idea for anybody, right ? I mean, the SMPng people will want people to beat the snot out of their chances and if people cannot built and run -current, how are they supposed to test it ? So, Warner and everybody else: Calm down, nobody is closing the development in FreeBSD project down for half a year. Matt and the rest of the SMPng crowd: Give us some more concrete details. Don't commit anything until people have had a chance to look at it and test it (normal procedure for large-scale changes applies 100% here) In particular a lot of people are at USENIX, nothing should be committed until they have caught up with their email. And promise that you'll make sure that -current is usable as much of the time as possible for the rest of the developers. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | 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-smp" in the body of the message
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