Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 22:23:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, luoqi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP users (important) Message-ID: <199904050523.WAA06416@apollo.backplane.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990402134527.23264A-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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:On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Alan Cox wrote: :> :> Now, if you're not using Luoqi's patches to enable multithreaded :> address spaces, you can stop reading here. If you are, you'll :> need to patch i386/i386/swtch.s as follows: : :My suggestion is that we apply Luoqi's %fs patch to -current rather than :have to track these changes manually.. : :Luoqi? Have you had any -ve feedback on this? : :(and what would be the equivalent ALPHA patch?) :I can imagine the original PDE trick working on the alpha but :they don't have a spare register sitting around.. : :julian I'd like to see this too. I will soon have two SMP boxes of my own to play with for my own personal use and for an upcoming project, and at least one will be available for SMP life-testing purposes for several months. I really want to see two things: (1) Actual sharing of the physical pmap between rfork(RFMEM|RFPROC)'d processes, and (2) Avoiding the %cr3 reload ( which clears the TLB ) when switching between such processes. -Matt Matthew Dillon <dillon@backplane.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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