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#! rnews 1207 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!news.cloud9.net!cloud9.net!tls From: tls@cloud9.net (Thor Lancelot Simon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Does NetBSD support for multi-CPU (Sparc ) ? Date: 17 May 1995 07:27:37 GMT Organization: Cloud 9 Internet, White Plains, New York, USA Lines: 16 Message-ID: <3pc8h9$65e@news.cloud9.net> References: <3p9j29$23v@netnews.ntu.edu.tw> <3parjn$gtd@crl.crl.com> <3patb8$olv@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cloud9.net In article <3patb8$olv@park.uvsc.edu>, Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote: > >"Threadsafing the kernel" is kind of misleading. You can start >with low granularity SMP where the kernel itself is still allowed >to run only once (with mutex enforcement of reentrancy at the >system call level). This would buy immediate parallel benefits >for code executing in user space, with only changes to the task >and system call/trampoline code being necessary. This is exactly what SunOS 4 does. -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@cloud9.net Somewhere they're meeting on a pinhead, calling you an angel.