SMP?

Peter Grehan grehan at freebsd.org
Tue Dec 5 22:01:41 PST 2006


Hi Marcel,

> I'd like to get a rough overview of where things stand and what to  expect
> when someone is to add SMP support.

  I've done almost nothing on this. I believe the atomic ops should be 
OK. There was a problem at one stage with trap handlers using global 
variables but that should also be fixed with a NetBSD merge that was 
done a while back.

  If you can grab the spin-up code from NetBSD, which I don't think is 
too bad, it may turn out to be a not-too-difficult project.

later,

Peter.


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