Re: Experts only please! (was Re: Preliminary SMP/BGL patch)

2000-03-24 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> At 2:57 PM -0500 2000/3/24, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > At 10:01 AM -0800 3/24/00, Matthew Dillon wrote: > >> This is not a 'normal Matt patch' that 'just works'. Ok, it seems to > >> just work, but it's not a normal Matt patch. If there were a > >> designation before 'early a

Re: Preliminary SMP/BGL patch

2000-03-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
:This sort of concerns me, but if I remeber correctly, unmasking :spl will cause a soft intr if there are pending interupts, the only :problem is that completely software initiated interupts wouldn't :get processed, or would they? Can you explain how they are being :scheduled/run if you remove do

Re: Experts only please! (was Re: Preliminary SMP/BGL patch)

2000-03-24 Thread Brad Knowles
At 2:57 PM -0500 2000/3/24, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 10:01 AM -0800 3/24/00, Matthew Dillon wrote: >> This is not a 'normal Matt patch' that 'just works'. Ok, it seems to >> just work, but it's not a normal Matt patch. If there were a >> designation before 'early alpha' this p

Re: Preliminary SMP/BGL patch

2000-03-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000324 10:23] wrote: > A preliminary BGL patch is now on my site, relative to RELENG_4. > > http://www.backplane.com/FreeBSD4/ > > It is the smp-patch-03.diff item at the end of the first section. > > My test box successfully built the wor

Re: Experts only please! (was Re: Preliminary SMP/BGL patch)

2000-03-24 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:01 AM -0800 3/24/00, Matthew Dillon wrote: >This is not a 'normal Matt patch' that 'just works'. Ok, it seems to >just work, but it's not a normal Matt patch. If there were a >designation before 'early alpha' this patch would get it. "Rough-draft proposal for early alpha versi

Experts only please! (was Re: Preliminary SMP/BGL patch)

2000-03-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
Umm... ok, some people seem to be enthusiastic but I really recommend that ONLY experts mess around with this patch until they sign off on its properness (or suggest fixes for improperness). This is not a 'normal Matt patch' that 'just works'. Ok, it seems to just work, but i

Preliminary SMP/BGL patch

2000-03-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
A preliminary BGL patch is now on my site, relative to RELENG_4. http://www.backplane.com/FreeBSD4/ It is the smp-patch-03.diff item at the end of the first section. My test box successfully built the world. I know I'm probably missing something, but so far I can't tell