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Date:      Wed, 10 Aug 2005 13:10:05 -0700
From:      Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Special schedulers, one CPU only kernel, one only userland
Message-ID:  <1123704605.54957.8.camel@realtime.exit.com>
In-Reply-To: <200508100911.50004.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <42F9ECF2.8080809@freebsd.org> <200508100911.50004.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 09:11 -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> I think this is the model that BSD/OS employed 
> for SMP in its 4.x series before they did their version of SMPng.

I didn't grunge around in the scheduler (much), but as far as I'm aware
BSD/OS 4.x used the Big Giant Lock mechanism just as FreeBSD did, and
for the same reason.
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