From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Dec 29 07:47:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA11842 for freebsd-emulation-outgoing; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 07:47:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.tar.com (ns.tar.com [204.95.187.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA11835 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 07:46:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dick@ns.tar.com) Received: (from dick@localhost) by ns.tar.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id JAA00801; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 09:45:50 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dick) Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 09:45:50 -0600 From: "Richard Seaman, Jr." To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: Ollivier Robert , freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: SMP linux threads (was Re: StarOffice 5.0?) Message-ID: <19981229094550.C502@tar.com> References: <19981229093117.A15799@keltia.freenix.fr> <3688A46E.598E1AF9@scc.nl> <19981229115013.A16678@keltia.freenix.fr> <3688ED3B.92893515@scc.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <3688ED3B.92893515@scc.nl>; from Marcel Moolenaar on Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 03:54:51PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 03:54:51PM +0100, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > Ollivier Robert wrote: > > > > According to Marcel Moolenaar: > > > Do not enable linux thread compatibility. It doesn't work on SMP. Beside > > > that; I don't see why it shouldn't work... > > > > Well, I'm in a bit of a catch22 because I want to try StarOffice 5 so I > > _need_ the Linux threads... > > I don't think it would help you much to tell you what I would do in such a > situation, because that's all I could do at this time :-( > > Do you know if SMP support is planned in the near future? Linux threads emulation works by implementing linux_clone using FreeBSD rfork. Currently, rfork, with the flags required for kernel threading, is disabled. It's my understanding that more work needs to be done on the SMP kernel before rfork can safely be enabled. I also understand that Luoqi Chen is working on this. He has posted patches at http://www.freebsd.org/~luoqi . I'm not running SMP at the moment, so I don't know how these patches would interact with the linux threads patches. -- Richard Seamman, Jr. email: dick@tar.com 5182 N. Maple Lane phone: 414-367-5450 Chenequa WI 53058 fax: 414-367-5852 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message