From owner-freebsd-smp Sun Jul 5 04:35:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA27760 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 04:35:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA27647 for ; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 04:33:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.gtn.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with UUCP id NAA18280; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 13:30:08 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA15270; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 13:19:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from andreas) Message-ID: <19980705131906.A14154@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 13:19:06 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: Kevin Van Maren , freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG, patton@sysnet.net Subject: Re: determining SMP References: <199807040140.TAA14436@fast.cs.utah.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199807040140.TAA14436@fast.cs.utah.edu>; from Kevin Van Maren on Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 07:40:53PM -0600 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 07:40:53PM -0600, Kevin Van Maren wrote: > > Anonyous cvs seems to be having problems now. You can cvsup the > CVS repository, as another option. It's a good idea to get the FreeBSD 2.2.6 or the FreeBSD-current SNAPSHOT cdrom from Walnut Creek (www.cdrom.com). You could for example install FreeBSD-current from the -current SNAP CD (it's bootable) and then get the rest of it via cvsup (which updates the cvs repository by fetching only the cvs deltas and this using compression) to reduce bandwidth. k blocks 7130 /cvs/CVSROOT 214 /cvs/distrib 18607 /cvs/doc 38213 /cvs/gnats 61709 /cvs/ports 378807 /cvs/src 5209 /cvs/www -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas What gives you 90% more speed, for example, in kernel compilation ? http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~fsmp/SMP/akgraph-a/graph1.html "NT = Not Today" (Maggie Biggs) ``powered by FreeBSD SMP'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-smp Sun Jul 5 18:35:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA05495 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:35:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shadow.spel.com (elevator.cablenet-va.com [208.206.84.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA05472 for ; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:35:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mturpin@shadow.spel.com) Received: from localhost (mturpin@localhost) by shadow.spel.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA07957 for ; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 22:42:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 22:42:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark turpin To: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Help coding Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I would like to help with the coding of the SMP kernel. Can someone give me a good starting place to get up to speed on the existing code? Mark Turpin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-smp Sun Jul 5 20:01:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA18459 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 20:01:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.webspan.net (root@mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA18408 for ; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 20:00:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from opsys@mail.webspan.net) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with SMTP id WAA20746; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 22:54:04 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 23:00:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Open Systems Networking X-Sender: opsys@orion.webspan.net To: Mark turpin cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help coding In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Mark turpin wrote: > I would like to help with the coding of the SMP kernel. Can someone give > me a good starting place to get up to speed on the existing code? http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html Chris -- "Linux... The choice of a GNUtered generation." ===================================| Open Systems Networking And Consulting. FreeBSD 2.2.6 is available now! | Phone: 316-326-6800 -----------------------------------| 1402 N. Washington, Wellington, KS-67152 FreeBSD: The power to serve! | E-Mail: opsys@open-systems.net http://www.freebsd.org | Consulting-Network Engineering-Security ===================================| http://open-systems.net -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQENAzPemUsAAAEH/06iF0BU8pMtdLJrxp/lLk3vg9QJCHajsd25gYtR8X1Px1Te gWU0C4EwMh4seDIgK9bzFmjjlZOEgS9zEgia28xDgeluQjuuMyUFJ58MzRlC2ONC foYIZsFyIqdjEOCBdfhH5bmgB5/+L5bjDK6lNdqD8OAhtC4Xnc1UxAKq3oUgVD/Z d5UJXU2xm+f08WwGZIUcbGcaonRC/6Z/5o8YpLVBpcFeLtKW5WwGhEMxl9WDZ3Kb NZH6bx15WiB2Q/gZQib3ZXhe1xEgRP+p6BnvF364I/To9kMduHpJKU97PH3dU7Mv CXk2NG3rtOgLTEwLyvtBPqLnbx35E0JnZc0k5YkABRO0JU9wZW4gU3lzdGVtcyA8 b3BzeXNAb3Blbi1zeXN0ZW1zLm5ldD4= =BBjp -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-smp Sun Jul 5 23:54:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA14819 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 23:54:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from csns02.comp.polyu.edu.hk (csns02.comp.polyu.edu.hk [158.132.25.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA14780 for ; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 23:53:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from c5666305@comp.polyu.edu.hk) Received: from cssolar85.COMP.HKP.HK (cssolar85 [158.132.8.174]) by csns02.comp.polyu.edu.hk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA13307 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 14:53:01 +0800 (HKT) Received: (from c5666305@localhost) by cssolar85.COMP.HKP.HK (SMI-8.6/) id OAA21806 for freebsd-smp@freebsd.org; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 14:52:58 +0800 Message-Id: <199807060652.OAA21806@cssolar85.COMP.HKP.HK> Subject: pthreads for 3.0-snap To: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 14:52:58 +0800 (HKT) From: "c5666305" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, I would like to know if there exist the pthreads for 3.0-snap. If so, please show the ftp sites. Thanks. Clarence CHAN To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Jul 6 07:00:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA12458 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 07:00:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from parkplace.cet.co.jp (parkplace.cet.co.jp [202.32.64.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA12453 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 07:00:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michaelh@cet.co.jp) Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.8.8/CET-v2.2) with SMTP id NAA23801; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 13:59:19 GMT Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 22:59:19 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock To: "Christopher T. Johnson" cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rfork() questions In-Reply-To: <199807012015.QAA01480@neunacht.netgsi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org We haven't had someone work on rfork() for a little while. Do you have the CVS tree? If so do ... cvs log kern_fork.c ... to see the history of who has worked on it. John Dyson is on indefinite sabbatical^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hresigned, but others should be able to help. If you have suggestions or patches just post a pr; a web link, or post it to the mailing list if they aren't too large. I'm sure someone on the list would be willing to review them or at least be a guinea pig. Regards, Mike Hancock On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Christopher T. Johnson wrote: > Well, I have this very nice raytracing code, it has been doing parallel > processing for many years now. The only thing it needs is the ability to > do a fork() while sharing memory, which rfork(RFPROC|RFMEM|RFFDG) should > do nicely, and semaphores. > > We've looked and found the semaphore syscall. And rfork() says it should > work, but of course rfork() fails if you are in SMP mode and request > rfork() with the RFMEM flag. > > I and my friends have no problem making kernel mods, we've been doing it > for a number of years. We are looking for a pointer to whomever is working > on the rfork() shared DPT problems. > > Thanks in advance for any help or information. > Chris Johnson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Jul 6 08:03:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA22490 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 08:03:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from neunacht.netgsi.com (neunacht.netgsi.com [192.55.203.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA22476 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 08:03:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjohnson@neunacht.netgsi.com) Received: (from cjohnson@localhost) by neunacht.netgsi.com (8.8.8/8.8.6) id LAA15815 for freebsd-smp@freebsd.org; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 11:03:30 -0400 (EDT) From: "Christopher T. Johnson" Message-Id: <199807061503.LAA15815@neunacht.netgsi.com> Subject: More rfork() questions To: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 11:03:27 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Around July 6th, 1997, John Dyson mentioned in a commit log entry that he had some modifications to support shared memory for SMP users. Has anybody seen this code? If John no longer has the time to work on this, can I please have a copy of the code/modifications? I'd rather not duplicate effort. Our development enviornment is running -CURRENT as of Friday and we do cvsup's of the CVS tree. We are perfectly willing to just take a tar of /usr/src/sys and work from there. Thanks lots, Chris Johnson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Jul 6 09:51:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA08240 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 09:51:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from parkplace.cet.co.jp (parkplace.cet.co.jp [202.32.64.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA08205 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 09:51:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michaelh@cet.co.jp) Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.8.8/CET-v2.2) with SMTP id QAA24462; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 16:49:14 GMT Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 01:49:14 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock To: "Christopher T. Johnson" cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More rfork() questions In-Reply-To: <199807061503.LAA15815@neunacht.netgsi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Christopher T. Johnson wrote: > Around July 6th, 1997, John Dyson mentioned in a commit log entry that he > had some modifications to support shared memory for SMP users. Has > anybody seen this code? > > If John no longer has the time to work on this, can I please have a copy of > the code/modifications? You should ask him directly, toor@dyson.iquest.net. > I'd rather not duplicate effort. > > Our development enviornment is running -CURRENT as of Friday and we do > cvsup's of the CVS tree. We are perfectly willing to just take a tar > of /usr/src/sys and work from there. If you use cvs you can do periodic merges with current so that your patches don't get too stale. It's a little bit more grunt work, but given that people agree with your code changes it will increase your chances of having the code committed quickly. Regards, Mike Hancock To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Jul 7 09:01:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA17973 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 09:01:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.ftf.dk (mail.ftf.dk [129.142.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA17954 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 09:01:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from regnauld@tetard.glou.eu.org) Received: from mail.prosa.dk ([192.168.100.254]) by mail.ftf.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8/gw-ftf-1.0) with ESMTP id SAA29107; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 18:03:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from regnauld@tetard.glou.eu.org) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.ftf.dk: Host [192.168.100.254] claimed to be mail.prosa.dk Received: from deepo.prosa.dk (deepo.prosa.dk [192.168.100.10]) by mail.prosa.dk (8.8.8/8.8.5/prosa-1.1) with ESMTP id SAA17338; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 18:01:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by deepo.prosa.dk (8.8.8/8.8.5/prosa-1.1) with UUCP id SAA16089; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 18:01:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tetard.glou.eu.org (tetard [192.168.1.1]) by shiva.glou.eu.org (8.8.5/8.8.8/prosa-1.1) with ESMTP id RAA11958; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 17:48:53 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from regnauld@tetard.glou.eu.org) Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by tetard.glou.eu.org (8.8.8/8.7.3/tetard-uucp-2.7) id RAA27922; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 17:53:03 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980707175303.37989@tetard.glou.eu.org> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 17:53:03 +0200 From: Philippe Regnauld To: Antero web technologies Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual processors References: <3.0.3.16.19980706161205.58172884@nano.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Main Body X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.16.19980706161205.58172884@nano.net>; from Antero web technologies on Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 04:12:05PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [Cc:ed to -smp] Antero web technologies (Steve) écrit/writes: > Does FreeBSD support multiple processor motherboards, specifically a dual > pentium pro board? FreeBSD-current supports many multiprocessor mboards in SMP. Check with the -smp people for compatibility (there might even be a list) -- I am writing from a 2xP5-133 machine right now. > Do you know of any other flavors of Unix (besides Linux) > that do? AIX, Solaris, Digital UNIX, HP-UX, ... -- -- Phil -[ Philippe Regnauld / regnauld@eu.org / +55.4N +11.3E @ Sol3 / +45 33241690 ]- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Jul 7 12:14:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA18274 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 12:14:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from electric.tbe.net (electric.tbe.net [207.99.115.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA18252 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 12:14:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gary@tbe.net) Received: (qmail 1768 invoked from network); 7 Jul 1998 19:12:43 -0000 Received: from electric.tbe.net (207.99.115.10) by electric.tbe.net with SMTP; 7 Jul 1998 19:12:43 -0000 Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 15:12:42 -0400 (EDT) From: "Gary D. Margiotta" To: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: mpstat for FreeBSD? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Anyone know of any program which compares to Sun's mpstat program in measuring the stats of multiple processors? Or any way to modify, say, top to display the stats for both cpu's respectively? ______________________________________________________________ -Gary Margiotta Voice: (973) 835-9696 TBE Internet Services Fax: (973) 835-2133 http://www.tbe.net E-Mail: gary@tbe.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message