On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 11:14:59AM +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > Jesse Scott wrote: > >Is the new SMP friendly file system for FreeBSD 6.0 enabled by default > >or is there something that must be done to enable it? > > > > Yeah, you have it by default, it's all about the VFS layer not being > under the GIANT lock (as much). From the 6.0 release notes: > > <quote> > Fine-grained locking to allow much of the VFS stack to run without the > Giant lock has been added. This is enabled by default on the alpha, > amd64, and i386 architectures, and can be disabled by setting the loader > tunable (and sysctl variable) debug.mpsafevfs to 0. > </quote>
Also sparc64. Kris
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