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Date:      Sun, 27 Apr 1997 23:58:02 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>
To:        Chris Csanady <ccsanady@nyx.pr.mcs.net>
Cc:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>, FreeBSD-SMP@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: SMP 
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.91.970427235743.32065P-100000@zen.cypher.net>
In-Reply-To: <199704280357.WAA12920@nyx.pr.mcs.net>

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i sit corrected.  i expect they will eventually migrate to a fully 
threaded kernel.

On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Chris Csanady wrote:

> 
> >freebsd-smp is not the best example of how to do SMP.  it uses the 
> >simplest method: one giant kernel lock.  i don't know that it is 
> >particularly representative of advanced SMP operating systems (though 
> >linux also uses a giant kernel lock).
> 
> Actually, linux has moved to a slightly finer grain system.  Now they
> have seperate locks for the run queues, scheduler, and some other
> things..
> 
> --Chris Csanady
> 



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