Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 18:21:15 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> To: Zbigniew Bodek <zbb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: ARM SMP is ready for prime time on FreeBSD Message-ID: <1396743675.81853.343.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> In-Reply-To: <CALF_Tx=e9J17%2Bx6RdGoOmCxwc8JAP8qNE12Dx1UT6qpk2vLDsA@mail.gmail.com> References: <1396645871.81853.330.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <CALF_Tx=e9J17%2Bx6RdGoOmCxwc8JAP8qNE12Dx1UT6qpk2vLDsA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 2014-04-05 at 14:09 +0200, Zbigniew Bodek wrote: > 2014-04-04 23:11 GMT+02:00 Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>: > > Thanks to the contributions of many dedicated freebsd-arm hackers over > > the past few months, it looks like SMP is now solid enough for everyday > > use. SMP has been "kinda working" for a while, but I think the pmap > > fixes we've been working on for the past few weeks have made things > > pretty robust. I've had continuous stress-testing on running on dual > > and quad-core boards with a multi-threaded app that maxes out all the > > cores with heavy floating point and network IO and haven't had any app > > crashes or kernel panics for a couple weeks. > > > > I've updated the kernel configs for the platforms I know have multiple > > cores, as of r264138. > > > > -- Ian > > > > Great work guys. Thank you. > > Best regards > zbb I discovered today that I somehow dropped a couple TLB flushes in putting together the commit for r264129, so anyone using SMP should update to today's r264183 or later. Sorry 'bout that. -- Ian
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