Re: PF & SMP

["Jonas Trollvik" <jontro@xxxxxxxxx>]

How much time is really wasted where one cpu is doing nothing but
waiting on one kthread to complete nowadays?

//jonas

On 9/21/06, Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> :
> :I saw this post:
> :http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2006-06/1971.html
> :
> :How about DragonFly PF & SMP?
>
>    Most of our kernel is still under the BGL, and its going to stay that
>    way at least until after the 1:1 threading work is finished, and
>    probably a good chunk of the syslink work too.
>
>    There has been progress around the edges.  e.g. the file descriptor
>    and file pointer subsystems are MP safe now, NETIF devices are
>    protected by their own serializer, the route table is per-cpu, and
>    a few other things.
>
>                                        -Matt
>                                        Matthew Dillon
>                                        <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>