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Date:      Tue, 04 Jun 1996 15:35:08 -0700
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org>
To:        Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com>
Cc:        smp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unix/NT synchronization model (was: SMP progress?) 
Message-ID:  <1926.833927708@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Jun 1996 15:25:10 PDT." <199606042225.PAA15769@kithrup.com> 

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In message <199606042225.PAA15769@kithrup.com>, Sean Eric Fagan writes:
>
>Okay, so that's an extremely short-ranged goal ;).  But I don't expect true
>symmetric MP to be happening for quite some time yet -- there's just too
>much that would have to be changed.  (Locks around nearly every structure
>reference in the kernel, for example.)

And it may not actually >improve< performance to do so...

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