the future of sun4v

[Peter Jeremy]

[cc list trimmed]

On 2008-Sep-08 01:14:39 -0700, Darren Reed <darrenr at freebsd.org> wrote:
>The critical issue for freebsd (and any operating system for
>that matter) on rock is how well does the kernel scale to a
>system with that many concurrent threads?

Right now it doesn't.  And based on some previous threads, there is a
lot of redesign to do before it can.  But stability needs to come
before scalability.  There's no point in FreeBSD pretending it can
support some arbitrary number of CPUs when it panics due to races
in one of the CPU subsystems - which is my understanding of the
current sun4v state.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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