From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Oct 31 20: 1:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from magnesium.net (toxic.magnesium.net [207.154.84.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B051937B4CF for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 20:01:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 68678 invoked by uid 1142); 1 Nov 2000 04:01:18 -0000 Date: 31 Oct 2000 20:01:18 -0800 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 20:01:06 -0800 From: Jason Evans To: Chuck Paterson Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MP: per-CPU mbuf allocation lists Message-ID: <20001031200106.L48771@canonware.com> References: <200010312225.PAA04504@berserker.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200010312225.PAA04504@berserker.bsdi.com>; from cp@bsdi.com on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 03:25:33PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 03:25:33PM -0700, Chuck Paterson wrote: > I would really really like to encourage anyone who wants > to do this type of work to please first help get more stuff out > from under Giant so we can start getting this thing to be act > more like a SMP system and less like a MP system that can't take > interrupts in the kernel. I strongly agree with Chuck here. We have a lot of ground work to do before such optimizations are of any importance. This discussion is similar in nature to the long discussion of mutexes (recursive/non-recursive, APIs, yadda yadda) -- both are irrelevant to the current state of FreeBSD. What we really need right now is help in moving -current forward to the point that such discussions are relevant. This is just soaking up people's time and making the real work go slower. If you really want to make a difference, please consider how you can help solve the issues we need to address *right now*. Jason SMP project manager To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message