Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 00:15:13 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Dennis George <easyeinfo@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Support for SMT in latest FreeBSD Message-ID: <413D6001.8000609@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20040907062012.39412.qmail@web53905.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040907062012.39412.qmail@web53905.mail.yahoo.com>
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Dennis George wrote: > 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 ????????? yes. in 5.3 or 6.0 very yes in 5.2 yes in 4.x mostly yes :-) > > 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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