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Date:      Sun, 7 Jun 1998 11:47:42 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I am getting good reports on the latest -current stuff
Message-ID:  <199806071647.LAA03427@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <19980607142241.B22820@keltia.freenix.fr> from Ollivier Robert at "Jun 7, 98 02:22:41 pm"

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> According to John S. Dyson:
> > Included in these changes are LL support of per-CPU kernel stacks
> > for threaded processes (higher level kernel support isn't there yet),
> > a little support for CPU affinity, and much more intelligent usage of
> > TLB IPI's.  The number of bugs fixed is overwhelming.
> 
> Are these patches interesting to UP systems too ? If you have fixed that
> many bugs, I guess yes...
> 
Yes, they should be helpful.  I have not beat on my system under UP like
I have using the SMP version of the kernel, but I do know that there were
windows in UP mode that this code will fix.  Also, the code has been
carefully scheduled to work (nearly) optimally on P5/P6 machines, so
there should be a nearly unmeasurable improvement for UP even just with
the swtch.s changes.

John


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