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Date:      Sun, 7 Jun 1998 14:19:41 -0500
From:      Karl Denninger  <karl@mcs.net>
To:        "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I am getting good reports on the latest -current stuff
Message-ID:  <19980607141941.39626@mcs.net>
In-Reply-To: <199806070813.DAA01895@dyson.iquest.net>; from John S. Dyson on Sun, Jun 07, 1998 at 03:13:57AM -0500
References:  <199806070813.DAA01895@dyson.iquest.net>

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On Sun, Jun 07, 1998 at 03:13:57AM -0500, John S. Dyson wrote:
> The latest patch is:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/~dyson/sysjun07b.diff.gz
> 
> SMP performance should be much better than standard -current,
> and this code embodies the most of the changes necessary
> to support kernel threads properly in the VM code.
> 
> I guess that there are still some interrupt latency problems
> for SIO, but YMMV.  All in all, the system is much more
> responsive, and this code should fix a myriad of bugs. Cleaned
> up versions of these changes will be committed next weekend.
> 
> Included in these changes are LL support of per-CPU kernel stacks
> for threaded processes (higher level kernel support isn't there yet),
> a little support for CPU affinity, and much more intelligent usage of
> TLB IPI's.  The number of bugs fixed is overwhelming.
> 
> John
> 
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Is this relavent for UP systems?

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