Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 22:57:12 -0500 From: Chris Csanady <ccsanady@nyx.pr.mcs.net> To: Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>, FreeBSD-SMP@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SMP Message-ID: <199704280357.WAA12920@nyx.pr.mcs.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 27 Apr 1997 22:53:57 -0400. <Pine.LNX.3.91.970427225228.32065M-100000@zen.cypher.net>
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>freebsd-smp is not the best example of how to do SMP. it uses the >simplest method: one giant kernel lock. i don't know that it is >particularly representative of advanced SMP operating systems (though >linux also uses a giant kernel lock). Actually, linux has moved to a slightly finer grain system. Now they have seperate locks for the run queues, scheduler, and some other things.. --Chris Csanady
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