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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!nntp.coast.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: dual processors Date: 16 Jul 1996 17:50:38 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4sgh8u$lc@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <31C67EA0.9E0C259@unix.sri.com> <Pine.ULT.3.91.960705140128.3415E-100000@blaze.trentu.ca> <31DD7D6D.5A46CCCD@lambert.org> <4s3ok2$go3@news.abs.net> <31E5CE8D.4CDCA958@lambert.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote: : FreeBSD has supported low grain (kernel entrancy lock) SMP since : October 1994. So how are things these days ? Is the plan to go fully-preemptive - maybe with a run-time-configurable non-preemptive option to dodge any locking overheads on a uniprocessor machine ? It would be nice if you could summarize the position. Thanks. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....