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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.

<hr2>Your HELP Appreciated!</hr2>

- 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.

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