From owner-svn-doc-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 19 14:10:12 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C82E027D; Sun, 19 May 2013 14:10:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hrs@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail.allbsd.org (gatekeeper.allbsd.org [IPv6:2001:2f0:104:e001::32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BABC4AFC; Sun, 19 May 2013 14:10:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from alph.d.allbsd.org (p2175-ipbf701funabasi.chiba.ocn.ne.jp [122.25.209.175]) (authenticated bits=128) by mail.allbsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r4JE9rWK019587 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 19 May 2013 23:10:03 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from hrs@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by alph.d.allbsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r4JE9otd008478; Sun, 19 May 2013 23:09:53 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from hrs@FreeBSD.org) Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 23:03:39 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <20130519.230339.1158852939290775967.hrs@allbsd.org> To: eadler@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r41672 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq From: Hiroki Sato In-Reply-To: <201305190102.r4J12Uls013461@svn.freebsd.org> References: <201305190102.r4J12Uls013461@svn.freebsd.org> X-PGPkey-fingerprint: BDB3 443F A5DD B3D0 A530 FFD7 4F2C D3D8 2793 CF2D X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 24.3 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Multipart/Signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="--Security_Multipart(Sun_May_19_23_03_39_2013_484)--" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.4 at gatekeeper.allbsd.org X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (mail.allbsd.org [133.31.130.32]); Sun, 19 May 2013 23:10:03 +0900 (JST) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-94.5 required=13.0 tests=CONTENT_TYPE_PRESENT, ONLY1HOPDIRECT,RCVD_IN_PBL,SAMEHELOBY2HOP,USER_IN_WHITELIST autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on gatekeeper.allbsd.org Cc: svn-doc-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-doc-all@FreeBSD.org, doc-committers@FreeBSD.org X-BeenThere: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire doc trees \(except for " user" , " projects" , and " translations" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 14:10:12 -0000 ----Security_Multipart(Sun_May_19_23_03_39_2013_484)-- Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Eitan Adler wrote in <201305190102.r4J12Uls013461@svn.freebsd.org>: ea> Author: eadler ea> Date: Sun May 19 01:02:30 2013 ea> New Revision: 41672 ea> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/41672 ea> ea> Log: ea> Improve the smp-support question wording for the modern era. Indicate that certain ARM cpus may have issues. ea> ea> This is based on information and wording from gavin. ea> ea> Modified: ea> head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml ea> ea> Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml ea> ============================================================================== ea> --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Sun May 19 00:56:24 2013 (r41671) ea> +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Sun May 19 01:02:30 2013 (r41672) ea> @@ -1680,16 +1680,13 @@ ea> ea> ea> ea> - Symmetric multi-processor (SMP) systems are generally ea> - supported by &os;, although in some cases, BIOS or ea> - motherboard bugs may generate some problems. ea> - ea> - &os; will take advantage of HyperThreading (HTT) ea> - support on &intel; CPUs that support this feature. A kernel ea> - with the options SMP option, enabled ea> - by default, ea> - will automatically detect the additional logical ea> - processors. ea> + &os; supports Symmetric multi-processor (SMP) on all ea> + non-embedded platforms (e.g, i386, amd64/x86-64, ea> + ia64, sparc64, powerpc, powerpc64). SMP is also ea> + supported in arm and MIPS kernels, although some CPUs ea> + may not support this. &os;'s SMP implementation uses ea> + fine-grained locking, and performance scales nearly ea> + liniarly with number of CPUs. &arch.*; should be used consistently for names of the platforms. And please do s/Symmetric/symmetric/ or capitalize all of the three words for SMP. -- Hiroki ----Security_Multipart(Sun_May_19_23_03_39_2013_484)-- Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAlGY27sACgkQTyzT2CeTzy05OACgtQJcPcqBy3+G7Wlzx5AU2Umo TKMAn1GBJmTRafdxBHTOyJ9NWhVlHlh+ =lcb1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----Security_Multipart(Sun_May_19_23_03_39_2013_484)----