Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 18:27:30 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: cp@bsdi.com (Chuck Paterson), arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Preemptive kernel on older X86 hardware Message-ID: <200005250127.SAA03314@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 25 May 2000 01:21:10 -0000." <200005250121.SAA11655@usr05.primenet.com>
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> I think the work required to build two kernels instead of one, and > then CPU-testing in the loader to pick one, is really trivial. I > think there are better approaches to the problem than this, but > this is enough to throw out that idea entirely. Are the mutexes inlined, or are they all function calls? If the latter, loading lock_smp.ko vs. lock_std.ko would be pretty trivial... 8) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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