Support for SMT in latest FreeBSD
Julian Elischer
julian at elischer.org
Tue Sep 7 00:15:16 PDT 2004
Dennis George wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Acutally I was wondering if there is no support for SMT / SMP then can
> freeBSD support dual processors..... Or can I utlize dual-processor in its
> fullness ?????????
yes.
in 5.3 or 6.0 very yes
in 5.2 yes
in 4.x mostly yes
:-)
>
> Dennis
>
> Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org> wrote: Dennis George wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I looking for SMT capability in freeBSD...... And found the following
>> extract in a document... saying that 4.3 BSD has no support for SMT.....
>> does the current/latest version of freeBSCD (5.2 or 6.0) has the support
>> for SMT ??????
>>
>
>
> yes.. it's the current area of development.
>
> what do you want and I can tell you how well we support you..
>
>
>
>>>> It (4.3 BSD) has no support for processor affinity or binding. It also
>>>> has no mechanism for distinguishing between CPUs of varying capability,
>>>> which is important for SMT (Symmetric Multi-Threading).
>>
>> Thanks in advance....... Dennis
>>
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