Our SMP implementation scalability

Thomas E. Spanjaard tgen at netphreax.net
Thu Jan 18 02:53:07 PST 2007


Dmitri Nikulin wrote:
I really really hope NetBSD
doesn't end up with similarly complex SMP, because that could really
kill it, with a minor fraction of FreeBSD's developer resources and an
onus to continue supporting many architectures.
Well, it appears that at least for userland they're moving from the 
complex M:N threading model using scheduler activations to a 1:1 model. 
Also, there's talk about interrupt handler threads, replacing SPLs, etc, 
 more in the DragonFly direction of SMP.

Cheers,
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        Thomas E. Spanjaard
        tgen at netphreax.net
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