Re: Re: Idle question about multi-core processors

["Chris Csanady" <cc@xxxxxxx>]

On 12/1/06, Justin C. Sherrill <justin@shiningsilence.com> wrote:
> On Fri, December 1, 2006 2:55 pm, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> > Do people think I should work on that for the January release instead
> > of the virtual kernel support?  I really only have time to do one or the
> > other.
>
> Will this last bit of BGL removal cause a significant speed improvement?
> If so, I'd pick that.  The virtual kernel support is more developer
> oriented (as I understand it), and so if it gets finished just after
> release rather than before, it won't change things much, as the people who
> would use it are probably already running HEAD.

I tend to agree with this sentiment.  BGL aside though, I think that
the VFS is still largely serial, and filesystems will remain an issue.
That probably is not a week long project.  From my understanding, it
would probably be easier to do the ZFS port than to untangle the mess
that is FFS.

Chris