From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Macs and future unix derivatives
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2021 19:56:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfr6UAAJHRwj14q=7cMsH303-u8=217PXc_LvcNrXRYiww@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210210014123.GS13701@mcvoy.com>
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On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 6:41 PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
> Which is part of the reason we liked it. I loved SunOS 4.x but it was
> also a uniprocessor kernel (Greg Limes tried to make it SMP but it was not
> a kernel that wanted to be SMP). I loved it because I could understand
> it and it was a bit more complex than v7.
>
David Barak and the OS group as Solbourne wwere able to do it for OS/MP.
First as a ASMP kernel where CPU0 ran the unix kernel, but scheduled jobs
for all the other CPUs, the as SMP where the kernel could run on any CPU
with progressively finer locking on each release.
Warner
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Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-09 3:58 M Douglas McIlroy
2021-02-09 4:07 ` Adam Thornton
2021-02-09 4:13 ` Will Senn
2021-02-09 5:21 ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-02-09 5:29 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-09 6:37 ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-02-09 16:13 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-09 17:31 ` John Cowan
2021-02-09 19:06 ` Chet Ramey
2021-02-10 2:31 ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-02-09 19:00 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-02-10 1:41 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-10 1:52 ` George Michaelson
2021-02-10 2:24 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-10 2:44 ` Dan Cross
2021-02-10 3:10 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-10 20:03 ` Kevin Bowling
2021-02-10 2:57 ` Warner Losh
2021-02-10 2:56 ` Warner Losh [this message]
2021-02-10 3:02 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-10 3:53 ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-02-09 11:34 ` Thomas Paulsen
2021-02-09 18:29 ` Nemo Nusquam
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2021-02-09 12:22 M Douglas McIlroy
2021-02-09 8:30 Bakul Shah
2021-02-08 18:11 Will Senn
2021-02-08 18:21 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-08 18:32 ` Justin Coffey
2021-02-08 18:39 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-09 1:59 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-12 13:48 ` Angel M Alganza
2021-02-08 18:42 ` Henry Bent
2021-02-09 6:55 ` John Gilmore
2021-02-09 7:05 ` Michael Huff
2021-02-16 22:55 ` Greg A. Woods
2021-02-09 7:17 ` Will Senn
2021-02-09 19:02 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-10 1:34 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-09 22:59 ` Wesley Parish
2021-02-08 18:43 ` Dan Stromberg
2021-02-12 13:39 ` Angel M Alganza
2021-02-08 18:45 ` Thomas Paulsen
2021-02-25 22:45 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-08 20:07 ` Al Kossow
2021-02-09 5:10 ` Andrew Warkentin
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