On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Marco Peereboom <sl...@peereboom.us> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 11:38:28AM -0500, Donald Allen wrote: >> My understanding is that OpenBSD still employs the Giant Lock approach >> to SMP, serializing access to kernel services. Is this still true? If > > yes > >> it is, do Theo and the other kernel developers consider it a priority >> to improve this? > > sure > >> >> (I am NOT complaining. I completely understand that OpenBSD is a labor >> of love and that development resources are limited and that doing SMP >> right isn't easy. I'm simply trying to get an idea of whether this is >> likely to be addressed in the near future or not.) > > depends on your definition of near future.
Sure, I could have phrased it better, because I'm not looking for a date, just more of a qualitative reading on whether the key people cared about this or not. /Don It will be done when it will > be done. > >> >> /Don Allen
