On 2/7/06, Antonios Anastasiadis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have been wondering what are the openbsd team's long term-plans (if
> any at all,of course) regarding future smp support.
> I am aware that openbsd currently supports smp under the big kernel
> lock, which offers some advantages for userland applications but
> generally things like interrupt and io load don't scale at all.
> I understand it is an enormous task, judging by the other os'es
> struggle to remove the bkl by various techniques.
> What are the developers thinking about the future regarding this
> matter, and what are their opinions about the other os'es paths as
> well.

i think we should rewrite the kernel in java since it has good support
for threads.

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