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FreeBSD SMP Plans

Posted by Nik on from the Also-from-Usenix dept.

Anonymous Coward writes: "A very interesting (if somewhat technical) synopsis of the Next Big Thing in FreeBSD SMP coming down the pipes from the geniuses on the FreeBSD core team. Some of the ideas are the beginnings of SMP discussions between BSDI and FreeBSD, along with some input from Yahoo. Very interesting reading!"

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  1. Why here by sirket · · Score: 3

    Why is something as important as a complete redesign of the FreeBSD SMP code sitting in the BSD only section and not on the main slashdot page?

    Just curious

    -sirket

  2. Who attended? by dcs · · Score: 3
    For those wanting to know who was there, here is a list (I copied this from someone else, so don't blame me for errors or jokes):

    Participants were:

    • Don Brady, Apple Computer, File systems
    • Ramesh, Apple Computer
    • Ted Walker, Apple Computer, network drivers
    • Jeffrey Hsu, FreeBSD project
    • Chuck Paterson, BSDi, Chief developer
    • Jonathan Lemon, Cisco, FreeBSD project
    • Matt Dillon, FreeBSD project VM, NFS
    • Paul Saab, Yahoo!
    • Kirk McKusick
    • Peter Wemm, Yahoo!
    • Jayanth, Yahoo!
    • Doug Rabson, FreeBSD project, Alpha port
    • Jason Evans, FreeBSD project, kernel threads
    • David Greenman, FreeBSD project, chief architect
    • Justin Gibbs, Adaptec, FreeBSD project, SCSI, 0 copy TCP
    • Greg Lehey, Linuxcare, FreeBSD project, storage management
    • Mike Smith, BSDi, FreeBSD project, hardware, iA64 port
    • Alfred Perlstein, Wintel, FreeBSD project
    • David O'Brien, BSDi, FreeBSD project, compilers, binutils
    • Ceren Ercen, Linuxcare, Daemon babe

    Look also at http://ziplok.dyndns.org/msmith/SMPng/.

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    (8-DCS)