On Monday 07 November 2005 11:15 am, Achim Patzner wrote: > Am 07.11.2005 um 16:27 schrieb Ollivier Robert: > > According to Steven Hartland: > >> I believe previously smp support in FreeBSD has been limited > >> to smaller numbers of CPU's, we've got the opportunity to test > >> an 8 way dual core ( 16 cpu's ) this week, is 6.0 up to this? > > > > I recall seeing someone on IRC saying they had a 14 CPU machine > > (Sparc64 > > E4500) to play with so I think it should be ok. > > I remember someone writing that the intermediate state of -CURRENT > while removing the giant lock around the kernel wasn't viable with > more than four CPUs as it would completely deadlock from time to > time. I guess we're a bit further down the road...
That might still be the case but it doesn't seem to have triggered on the 14-CPU sparc. FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/amd64 both support up to 16 CPUs (counting hyperthreads, so a 4-package box with dual cores that each have 2 hyperthreads should recognize all 16 cpus). -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-smp To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
