From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 7 10:38:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA07946 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 10:38:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA07907 for ; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 10:38:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA23667; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 19:37:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199806071737.TAA23667@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: I am getting good reports on the latest -current stuff In-Reply-To: <199806071647.LAA03427@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at "Jun 7, 98 11:47:42 am" To: toor@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 19:37:04 +0200 (CEST) Cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In reply to John S. Dyson who wrote: > > According to John S. Dyson: > > > Included in these changes are LL support of per-CPU kernel stacks > > > for threaded processes (higher level kernel support isn't there yet), > > > a little support for CPU affinity, and much more intelligent usage of > > > TLB IPI's. The number of bugs fixed is overwhelming. > > > > Are these patches interesting to UP systems too ? If you have fixed that > > many bugs, I guess yes... > > > Yes, they should be helpful. I have not beat on my system under UP like > I have using the SMP version of the kernel, but I do know that there were > windows in UP mode that this code will fix. Also, the code has been > carefully scheduled to work (nearly) optimally on P5/P6 machines, so > there should be a nearly unmeasurable improvement for UP even just with > the swtch.s changes. Hmm, I just tried the sys*7b patches, and it hangs my dual P6/200 solid very fast in a make world, it just locks up, and is totally cactus. I saw that it turned on WC on the videocards mem (S3 ViRGE/DK 4M), and that might be the problem, on the other hand the system wasn't running X at the time, so that mem shouldn't be in use.... Oh, I run with SLICE/DEVFS if that matters, else plain of the hour -current sources... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message