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.