Re: spinlocks

Miod Vallat <[email protected]> Thu, 20 Mar 2003 22:30:26 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.smp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Well, there's a lot of people interested in SMP on OpenBSD,
> maby we should oragnize a bit our demands and forces to do something
> creative

You fail to understand one capital point behind free software
developement.

The fact that a lot of people are interested in SMP support has
absolutely no influence wrt SMP support. SMP support can only be done by
people with enough skills to code correct code, multiprocessor wise. Who
cares if there are 1000 persons on a list awaiting this code to happen.
This will not help improving this situation.

I sure would love to get my quad-sparc and my quad-mvme88k boxes running
multiprocessor. This is however very low in my todolist (assuming I have
enough brain cells to write decent multiprocessor code). But you don't
see me whining on the lists, because whining does not get code to be
written.

And now, if you'll excuse me, I'm back to code.

Miod