Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 19:37:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: toor@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I am getting good reports on the latest -current stuff Message-ID: <199806071737.TAA23667@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199806071647.LAA03427@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at "Jun 7, 98 11:47:42 am"
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In reply to John S. Dyson who wrote:
> > According to John S. Dyson:
> > > Included in these changes are LL support of per-CPU kernel stacks
> > > for threaded processes (higher level kernel support isn't there yet),
> > > a little support for CPU affinity, and much more intelligent usage of
> > > TLB IPI's. The number of bugs fixed is overwhelming.
> >
> > Are these patches interesting to UP systems too ? If you have fixed that
> > many bugs, I guess yes...
> >
> Yes, they should be helpful. I have not beat on my system under UP like
> I have using the SMP version of the kernel, but I do know that there were
> windows in UP mode that this code will fix. Also, the code has been
> carefully scheduled to work (nearly) optimally on P5/P6 machines, so
> there should be a nearly unmeasurable improvement for UP even just with
> the swtch.s changes.
Hmm, I just tried the sys*7b patches, and it hangs my dual P6/200 solid
very fast in a make world, it just locks up, and is totally cactus.
I saw that it turned on WC on the videocards mem (S3 ViRGE/DK 4M), and
that might be the problem, on the other hand the system wasn't running
X at the time, so that mem shouldn't be in use....
Oh, I run with SLICE/DEVFS if that matters, else plain of the hour
-current sources...
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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