Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 00:22:46 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mutexes and semaphores Message-ID: <200009270722.e8R7MkA03362@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Sep 2000 07:16:15 -0000." <200009270716.AAA20144@usr05.primenet.com>
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> > > > We should be coding and discussing existing problems with making the
> > > > kernel MPsafe instead of what me *might* come across along the road.
> > >
> > > I certainly think that at the moment we should be thinking about
> > > structure rather than details.
> >
> > I think we've been doing that for two years already and it hasn't
> > bought us squat.
>
> Don't fabricate, Alfred. The SMP code firwst existed as patches
> by Jack Vogel, then of Sun Microsystems, against the October 27
> 1995 source tree. The current SMP code is dervied from patches
> (very minor ones) I did to bring Jack's work up to date in 1996,
> and a lot of work by a lot of other people, starting with Peter.
>
> So don't say it's been two years when it's really been five.
Actually, it's been about a year, plus about four and a half of hot air.
I see and hear a lot of talk. Who's doing the real work? Do we see
Peter, John or Tor, for example, in this windage competition. 8)
Come on folks. Stick to the topic.
--
... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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