Re: SMP implementation

2016-05-06 Thread Martin Pieuchot
On 05/05/16(Thu) 19:03, Pavan Maddamsetti wrote: > I have been reading about ongoing improvements to SMP in OpenBSD. My > understanding is that context switching from userspace to the kernel can be > hazardous if shared resources are not protected by locking. The context switching it not the

SMP implementation

2016-05-05 Thread Pavan Maddamsetti
I have been reading about ongoing improvements to SMP in OpenBSD. My understanding is that context switching from userspace to the kernel can be hazardous if shared resources are not protected by locking. OpenBSD currently has a "giant lock" for safe concurrent access to kernel data structures. It