Amit Kulkarni [amitk...@gmail.com] wrote: > Chris, don't forget to mention that they are simplifying the buffer cache > (and bigmem!) so that when the attempted switch to rthreads comes, there will > be far less hassles > compared to FreeBSD or NetBSD, which literally took 2-5 years to perfect. > Read Matt Dillon's interview linked from wikipedia. Read the section on > buffer cache > > http://kerneltrap.org/node/8 > > Linux and the other BSD's with so much commercial support (not Dfly!) just > recently getting rid of Big Giant Lock, so OpenBSD is not that far behind. > Stick with OpenBSD and see how 'fast' it continues to run. >
rthreads isn't going to help with kernel locking... i didn't think that much effort was going towards splitting the kernel across CPUs, is there something i'm missing here?
