SMP Threads (was: Re: SMP and SO5.0)

1999-03-04 Thread Richard Seaman, Jr.
On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 06:13:43PM -0700, Russell L. Carter wrote: John Dyson extemporised: %Julian Elischer said: % % % On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Luoqi Chen wrote: % You may try my patch at http://www.freebsd.org/~luoqi, which would allow % linux threads to run on SMP. % % I've gone

Re: SMP and SO5.0

1999-03-03 Thread Russell L. Carter
John Dyson extemporised: %Julian Elischer said: % % % On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Luoqi Chen wrote: % You may try my patch at http://www.freebsd.org/~luoqi, which would allow % linux threads to run on SMP. % % I've gone through these patches and I can see that they are really needed % for SMP

Re: SMP and SO5.0

1999-02-19 Thread Terry Lambert
You may try my patch at http://www.freebsd.org/~luoqi, which would allow linux threads to run on SMP. I've gone through these patches and I can see that they are really needed for SMP where address spaces are shared. I agree -- a per-cpu page directory per multithreaded process is

Re: SMP and SO5.0

1999-02-17 Thread Luoqi Chen
I've gone through these patches and I can see that they are really needed for SMP where address spaces are shared. There are details I didn't get, such as where is the per-processor pde pointed, (i.e. where is the per processor KVM range) and is there a single page table for each processor

Re: SMP and SO5.0

1999-02-17 Thread John S. Dyson
Julian Elischer said: On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Luoqi Chen wrote: You may try my patch at http://www.freebsd.org/~luoqi, which would allow linux threads to run on SMP. I've gone through these patches and I can see that they are really needed for SMP where address spaces are shared. I

Re: SMP and SO5.0

1999-02-16 Thread Luoqi Chen
Hi, I downloaded Star Office 5 and only THEN realised that the code for doing linux thread emulation is #ifndef SMP :) Still, after downloading 70 meg over a 56k modem and paying 19c/meg I was gonna try the sucker regardless.. And well, it works! The install hung at the end, after its

Re: SMP and SO5.0

1999-02-16 Thread Brian Feldman
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Luoqi Chen wrote: Hi, I downloaded Star Office 5 and only THEN realised that the code for doing linux thread emulation is #ifndef SMP :) Still, after downloading 70 meg over a 56k modem and paying 19c/meg I was gonna try the sucker regardless.. And well, it

Re: SMP and SO5.0

1999-02-16 Thread Julian Elischer
I'm not sure why you need a different page directory for each processor. what's your thinking on this? You might add some comments in your patches so that if becomes more obvious what you are doing... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the

Re: SMP and SO5.0

1999-02-16 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Luoqi Chen wrote: You may try my patch at http://www.freebsd.org/~luoqi, which would allow linux threads to run on SMP. I've gone through these patches and I can see that they are really needed for SMP where address spaces are shared. There are details I didn't get, such