Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 13:02:25 -0800 From: Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com> To: smp@freebsd.org Subject: SMP Project Status (5 March 2001) Message-ID: <20010305130225.D45981@canonware.com>
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Since the last status report at the end of January, some significant developments have occurred. The kernel is now preemptive, priority propagation works, proc locking is mostly done, and John Baldwin has patches to move signal handling out of under Giant. In addition, significant cleanups have been done in the mutex and interrupt code. We're starting to reap some of the benefits of all the work done up to now. A lot of low-hanging fruit is ripe now. On another note, I have accepted a job at Sendmail, and am stepping down as SMP project manager due to anticipated time constraints. The SMP project has been in progress for 8 months, and we have 3 to 4 months until the focus of the project needs to shift from development of functionality to performance and stability improvements. There are plenty of disjoint tasks that can be picked up by developers not currently involved in the SMP project. If you want FreeBSD 5.0 to be a success, please consider what you can do to help make it so. There are several unassigned tasks on the task list, and plenty more in the minds of the SMP developers. The SMP project page is still at http://people.freebsd.org/~jasone/smp/. It is likely that the page will move at some point since I am no longer maintaining it, so watch your -smp mail for announcements. Jason Evans To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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