Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 23:20:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Dennis George <easyeinfo@yahoo.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Support for SMT in latest FreeBSD Message-ID: <20040907062012.39412.qmail@web53905.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <413D4595.5000104@elischer.org>
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Hi, Acutally I was wondering if there is no support for SMT / SMP then can freeBSD support dual processors..... Or can I utlize dual-processor in its fullness ????????? Dennis Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote: Dennis George wrote: > Hi all, > > I looking for SMT capability in freeBSD...... And found the following extract > in a document... saying that 4.3 BSD has no support for SMT..... does the > current/latest version of freeBSCD (5.2 or 6.0) has the support for SMT > ?????? > yes.. it's the current area of development. what do you want and I can tell you how well we support you.. > >>> It (4.3 BSD) has no support for processor affinity or binding. It also >>> has no mechanism for distinguishing between CPUs of varying capability, >>> which is important for SMT (Symmetric Multi-Threading). > > Thanks in advance....... Dennis > > > --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! > Get it on your mobile phone. _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, > send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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