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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
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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.

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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....