Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 16:24:35 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com> Cc: smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix/NT synchronization model (was: SMP progress?) Message-ID: <199606042324.QAA00541@Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Jun 1996 15:25:10 PDT." <199606042225.PAA15769@kithrup.com>
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>Okay, so that's an extremely short-ranged goal ;). But I don't expect true >symmetric MP to be happening for quite some time yet -- there's just too >much that would have to be changed. (Locks around nearly every structure >reference in the kernel, for example.) What do you mean by "true symmetric MP"? The current stuff is "true SMP". Just because it is coarse-grained, doesn't mean it isn't SMP. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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