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Re: Our SMP implementation scalability


From: "Thomas E. Spanjaard" <tgen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:41:48 +0000

Dmitri Nikulin wrote:
I really really hope NetBSD
doesn't end up with similarly complex SMP, because that could really
kill it, with a minor fraction of FreeBSD's developer resources and an
onus to continue supporting many architectures.

Well, it appears that at least for userland they're moving from the complex M:N threading model using scheduler activations to a 1:1 model. Also, there's talk about interrupt handler threads, replacing SPLs, etc, more in the DragonFly direction of SMP.


Cheers,
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        Thomas E. Spanjaard
        tgen@netphreax.net

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