Special schedulers, one CPU only kernel, one only userland

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 10 August 2005 04:10 pm, Frank Mayhar wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 09:11 -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > I think this is the model that BSD/OS employed
> > for SMP in its 4.x series before they did their version of SMPng.
>
> I didn't grunge around in the scheduler (much), but as far as I'm aware
> BSD/OS 4.x used the Big Giant Lock mechanism just as FreeBSD did, and
> for the same reason.

I believe that at some point during the 4.x series they added a scheduler lock 
that covered just enough to allow threads that weren't asleep in the kernel 
to be switched to without require the big giant lock and that it was a pretty 
decent performance win over the earlier single BGL ala FreeBSD 4.x.

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