panic: APIC: Previous IPI is stuck

[Scott Long]

Matthias Buelow wrote:
> Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
>>     I would expect it to perform about the same as the existing code.  
>> The
>>     main reasons to use it are that it consolidates the half dozen IPI
>>     mechanisms used by FreeBSD-5 into *one* mechanism, it completely
> 
> 
> Don't you (and others on this list) think that these things come a bit 
> late now?  I have just subscribed to this list since I'm using 5.2.1 and 
>  what I expected were discussions like, the last few bugs being ironed 
> out, things getting polished for a stable 5.x tree, and not grass-roots 
> discussions about the basic system architecture.  This comes about 2-3 
> years late, folks.  Please get your things together and stabilize the 
> beast now.
> 

The 'fix the bugs' discussions are going on too.  However, this is the
freebsd-current list, and it's always nice to discuss things that might
be suitable further down the road.

Scott