From owner-cvs-all Tue Oct 15 18:40: 9 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3B8B37B401; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 18:40:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F64F43E6E; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 18:40:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org ([12.232.206.8]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021016014007.CZLV12986.sccrmhc02.attbi.com@InterJet.elischer.org>; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 01:40:07 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA82430; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 18:23:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 18:23:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Lars Eggert Cc: Jim Pirzyk , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf options.i386 src/sys/i386/conf NOTES src/sys/i386/include atomic.h In-Reply-To: <3DACBB41.9040709@isi.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG How many SMP vmware's have you seen? On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Lars Eggert wrote: > Jim Pirzyk wrote: > > pirzyk 2002/10/14 12:33:12 PDT > > > > Modified files: > > sys/conf options.i386 > > sys/i386/conf NOTES > > sys/i386/include atomic.h > > Log: > > Add a knob to turn on and off the CMPXCHG instruction on > i386 IA32 systems. > > This is most beneficial for vmware client os installs. > > Setting this option in an SMP kernel makes it die a horrible death > during boot. > > Lars > -- > Lars Eggert USC Information Sciences Institute > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message