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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