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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)

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\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
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