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Date:      Tue, 7 Sep 2004 07:31:53 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Dennis George <easyeinfo@yahoo.com>
Subject:   Re: Support for SMT in latest FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.43.0409070726190.29441-100000@sea.ntplx.net>
In-Reply-To: <413D6001.8000609@elischer.org>

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On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Julian Elischer wrote:

> Dennis George wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Acutally I was wondering if there is no support for SMT / SMP then can
> > freeBSD support dual processors..... Or can I utlize dual-processor in its
> > fullness ?????????

Actually, I think he's more insterested in threading across multiple
processors, so:

>
> yes.
> in 5.3 or 6.0 very yes

With libpthread or libthr in 5.3 and -current, yes.  With
libc_r, no.

> in 5.2 yes

With libkse (renamed to libpthread in 5.3 and -current) and
libthr, yes, but both are experimental in this release.  You
really want 5.3 or -current if you want to use libpthread or
libthr.  With libc_r, no.

> in 4.x mostly yes

Only with the linuxthreads port.  With libc_r, no.  Neither
libpthread nor libthr are available for 4.x (and won't be).

There is no pbind() or processor_bind() (ala Solaris) in
FreeBSD (yet).  Julian has to add them ;-)

-- 
Dan Eischen



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