From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 19 10:43:47 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA15616 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 10:43:47 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA15609 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 10:43:46 -0800 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id KAA24185; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 10:43:29 -0800 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199503191843.KAA24185@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: SMP work To: rcarter@geli.com (Russell L. Carter) Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 10:43:28 -0800 (PST) Cc: dufault@hda.com, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199503191827.KAA13613@geli.clusternet> from "Russell L. Carter" at Mar 19, 95 10:27:19 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 660 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > efficient enough to make sense. Is there not much interest in a simple > master/slave kernel with dual run queues.? That would > work very well for parallel numerical algorithms, and I believe it's > the way the Paragon is run. The book by Schimmel makes it look not all > that hard, easy to say from the bleachers, I guess. > I think it would be a logical step to make a master/slave version first. If for nothing else, it is a good place to start the SMP work from... -- Poul-Henning Kamp -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'