From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Jan 10 15:42:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB0AB37B400; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:42:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0272.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.17] helo=mindspring.com) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Ooq6-0005NI-00; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:42:31 -0800 Message-ID: <3C3E26E3.1E4BDAAE@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:42:27 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Garance A Drosihn , smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux moves to per CPU run queues References: <3C3CF60B.CE5F3E6C@mindspring.com> <3C3DE767.8A1EBD8B@mindspring.com> <20020111094412.B42285@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Lehey wrote: > > Or we could look at the benchmarks published about a similar > > approach in Dynix, back in 1991, on a 32 CPU system, and just > > decide that it's the right way to do things... > > Sure, because the rest of Dynix worked the same way, and the hardware > was the same. It's got to be the right way! I wish he had posted to the list, it would be more than just hear-say from me... Sam Leffler informs me that IRIX also uses per CPU queues. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message