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I don't know the technical reasons behind it, but both OpenBSD and NetBSD once had issues with SMP. I think they both have resolved them in x86 land but I don't
by morganvachon 12y ago
I don't know the technical reasons behind it, but both OpenBSD and NetBSD once had issues with SMP. I think they both have resolved them in x86 land but I don't know about other platforms. Maybe this is a similar issue and won't take long to work out.
- bch 12y agoNetBSD has had multiprocessor support since 2004 [1] -- the biggest thing I remember re: "multi" support was fiddling w/ the thread model, which was a sort of radical period in development[2]... [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBSD#Symmetric_multiprocessing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBSD#Symmetric_multiprocessin... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheduler_activations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheduler_activations