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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Symmetric Multi-Processing
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 14:22:01 -0700
Organization: Me
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Nick Kralevich wrote:
]
] In article <31813FF4.527A0A7@lambert.org>,
] Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
] >Starting with 2.0.5, the patches in pub on freefall.cdrom.com
] >will give you low grain SMP,
]
] Is this code actively supported?
Yes, it is actively supported. I am doing FS and system call
multithreading on my personal machine (median grain parallelism).
] My understanding is that you had to check code out from the
] 1994 version of FreeBSD to make use of this, and apply a
] bunch of ugly patches.
This depends on how you judge "ugly". If "ugly" means that
you expect the code to change, then yes.
But by that definition, all of Linux and FreeBSD is "ugly".
The 1994 version is if you run with the original Jack Vogel
patches. They just happen to be convenient to point to.
] Are there any patches available to FreeBSD-current?
Yes.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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