FreeBSD SMPng has begun!

Info:

• The announcement by Jason Evans.
• The SMP meeting summary.

Related web pages:

• Jason Evans's SMPng project tracking page.
• Matthew Dillon's status page.
• Greg Lehey's INTerrupt thread patchset.
• Julian's kernel threads design page.

FreeBSD supports Symmetric MultiProcessor kernels in the following releases:

• 3.0-RELEASE/STABLE
• 4.0-RELEASE/STABLE
• 5.0-CURRENT

The hlt benchmarks.

Some recent benchmarks.

Message of the day:

• 4.20.2000: Improved support for multiple IO APICs added to 5.0-CURRENT.
• 4.21.2000: Improved support for multiple IO APICs added to 4.0-RELEASE.

• old messages.

Getting started with the FreeBSD SMP kernel.

White Papers on FreeBSD SMP: design issues for the kernel, documenting both current and future functionality.

White Papers on other SMP kernels:

• Solaris SMP (local copy in postscript form)
• DEC OSF/1v3.0 (local text and postscript copies)

The To-Do List.

Some Benchmarks.

Problems?

• Open problems and bug reports.
• The Rogue hardware page.

Hardware issues:

• List of known working hardware.
• mptable: userland program to examine the MP Spec Table on your motherboard. Note that the most recent version of mptable will be found in 3.0-current:/usr/sbin/.
• Collection of mptable outputs.

The FreeBSD SMP Mail List:

• You can subscribe to the FreeBSD mail list called 'freebsd-smp'
• You can search the freebsd-smp mail archives (be sure to click the 'SMP' button)

If you plan on hacking code you will want to gather some data manuals:

• Documents on the Web.
• Documents in printed form.

General Interest Documents:

• Books.
• Terry's Threads, Locking, Parallelism, and Concurrency.
• Netlocking discusses the parallelization of the xkernel network protocol code for shared memory multiprocessors.
• Experiences with Locking in a NUMA MultiProc OS Kernel

Other issues:

• Many SMP motherboards now come in the new ATX Formfactor

Web sites of interest:

• Intel SMP (via MultiProcessor Specification) for Free OS's
• Tom's Hardware & Performance Guide
• [ I need help here, folks ]

Look in here for new files, updates, etc.

Your HELP Appreciated!

• Send links to useful information for inclusion in this page.
• Run one or more of the tests (listed above) and report the results.
• Volunteer to do some coding.

What would you like to see covered in this section? E-mail your ideas, comments, complaints.