Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 18:03:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Yifeng Xu <websoft@yahoo.com> To: smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP project status Message-ID: <20001024010318.12831.qmail@web1704.mail.yahoo.com>
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what's status of kernel based pthread implemention? will it still be user level pthread library and can not be smp scaled? Regards, XuYifeng ----- Original Message ----- From: Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com> To: <smp@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 2:22 AM Subject: SMP project status > Here's a reminder that the SMP project is being tracked at: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~jasone/smp/ > > Significant progress continues to be made. Many of the tasks that are > listed as "in progress" are essentially complete, pending testing and > review. In general, the SMP project has been going very smoothly, and > -current has been usable a larger percentage of the time than I had hoped > for. > > Note that there are a number of unassigned tasks right now. Some of the > tasks are pretty straightforward, so if you're looking for an opportunity > to help, please take a look at the list. > > A couple of weeks ago, John Baldwin and Chuck Paterson created a list of > rules for kernel synchronization. If you haven't looked at the rules yet, > take a look at: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~jasone/smp/smp_synch_rules.html > > Many of the developers currently involved in the SMP project were at BSDcon > last week. We discussed a lot of technical issues surrounding the tasks > that are currently in progress. We also discussed modes of communication. > Much of the SMP-related communication has taken place via IRC, phone, or in > person meetings. In my opinion, IRC and voice are much more efficient than > email for many things, but I am increasingly concerned about the lack of a > permanent record for many of the conversations we've had up to now. In > some cases, I've tried to go back and figure out why we made a certain > decision, only to realize that there is no record of how the decision was > reached. Therefore, I ask that everyone make a concerted effort to > document issues and reasoning for decisions on the -smp mailing list. This > also means holding technical discussions on the mailing list whenever > practical, and when not practical, summarizing on the mailing list. > SMP-related work is going to continue for several years in one form or > another, and there are probably people who are not even involved with > FreeBSD yet that will be doing some of the work, so we need to leave a > development documentation trail for those people, as well as for ourselves. > > To those of you currently involved in the SMP project, thanks, and keep up > the good work! To those of you not currently involved, maybe it's time to > jump in. =) > > Jason > SMP project manager > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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