From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 23 12:42:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E78537B9B9 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 12:42:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e3NKBHl21592; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 13:11:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 13:11:17 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Matthew Dillon Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MFCing SMP cleanups from -current into 4.x on wednesday Message-ID: <20000423131117.F204@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200004231825.LAA62883@apollo.backplane.com> <20000423130318.E204@fw.wintelcom.net> <200004231939.MAA63647@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200004231939.MAA63647@apollo.backplane.com>; from dillon@apollo.backplane.com on Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 12:39:58PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Matthew Dillon [000423 13:08] wrote: > > :I would like to see this happen and I agree with keeping 4.0 and > :5.0 as close as possible. Please don't forget that the SMP deltas > :had some serious problems, they broke UP kernels (afaik) and you'll > :need to MFC my makesyscalls.sh hack (the delta directly edited > :generated files). Because of that they need a couple of days of being > :available so people can test (I will) before being applied to > :RELENG_4. > : > :I think the change in write behind algorithms should be pushed into > :RELENG_4 asap, they are stable and if we get negative feedback from > :the larger userbase they can be re-examined now instead of us > :scratching our heads a year down the road when we have RELENG_5 and > :performance problems crop up. > : > :-Alfred > > Ach, I did forget about the makesyscalls.sh hack. Your right, I'll > put together a big MFC patchset for the SMP stuff and make it available > tonight or tomorrow for people to test with first, just to make sure > we haven't forgotten anything. That means we will probably have to > push the commit off until at least friday. > > Was it just you and me that committed the SMP stuff or were there > others? I'll physically compare the files between 4.x and 5.x just > to be sure, but I think it was just you and me doing the commits. I'm really sorry, I know I did makesyscalls.sh but I don't know who fixed the UP compiles and if anyone else stepped in to 'help' in the meanwhile. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message