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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: SMP seem to introduce some strange things...
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> The management of the vnodes and VM interface, and associated reference
> counts is pretty tricky (and currently wrong.)

Yea!

> PHK is working on the general vnode and namecache management
> (which is intricate in it's own right),

Yea!

> but I am working the VM interface and making it fine grained SMP
> friendly.  Currently, it isn't.

Hooray!

8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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