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To: Jin Guojun (FTG staff) <jin@george.lbl.gov>
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Subject: Re: kernel SMP thread 
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
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> I asked a question "Is FreeBSD working on SMP thread?" at both USENIX
> and FreeBSDcon last year, you answered that it is already in the kernel,
> but there is no API for userland. Maybe we misunderstund each other :-(

I answered that we had *kernel* threads but that there was no native
API yet, just the "linuxthreads" kernel thread API.  Actual SMP-capable
kernel threads remain a pipe dream for us, however.  Want to work
on it? :-)

- Jordan


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