Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 13:55:43 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Unix/NT synchronization model (was: SMP progress?) Message-ID: <199606042055.NAA23549@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 04 Jun 96 11:32:36 -0700. <560.833913156@critter2.tfs.com>
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>> At the risk of asking a st00pid FAQ question, what is the current
>> state of progress on FreeBSD SMP work?
>Pretty good, quite stable.
So, where are SMP development issues discussed? I didn't see a lot of
traffic in this group in the archives.
Another question I have: What is the "reference" model for SMP
synchronization methods in Unix? Solaris? OSF/1? For those who are
familiar with the Windows NT synchronization model, how does this Unix
reference model compare? I. e. what are the similarties and
differences?
I've only done real threads and SMP-aware code on Windows NT, so don't
have any point of reference for this kind of work on Unix. For what
it's worth, in my somewhat limited experience, the NT model seems to
be pretty well designed (well, ignoring the fact that it's surrounded
by the Win32 API... :-).
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