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Jeffrey Hsu e552957db8 Break up the inp task into IP, UDP, TCP, raw IP, divert sockets, 
and IPv6.  Indicate IPv4, UDP, and TCP was committed into the tree
June of last year.

Add some more completed and already committed networking items:
ifaddr ref counts, syncache, the ifnet list, radix trees, and ARP.

Add some completed, not yet committed, networking work:  raw IP,
divert sockets, and Unix domain protocols.

Add some networking work in progress:  routing.

Add some networking todo items:  IPv6.
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<h2>Contents</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="#goal">Project Goal</a></li>
<li><a href="#plan">Project Plan</a></li>
<li><a href="#resources">Resources and Links</a></li>
<li><a href="#subsystems">Subsystems and Staffing</a></li>
<li><a href="#status">Tasks</a></li>
<li><a href="#issues">Known Issues</a></li>
<li><a href="#news">News</a></li>
</ul>
<a name="goal"></a>
<h2>Project Goal</h2>
<p>The FreeBSD SMP project, often referred to as SMPng (SMP next
generation), is focused on implementing fine-grained SMP support
for the FreeBSD 5.0 kernel (scheduled for November 2002). Due
to FreeBSD's history, this is much like trying to fit a square
peg into a round hole, and as such, the intermediate results
aren't pretty in many ways. We are specifically not attempting
to rewrite the kernel from scratch, nor are we on a crusade to
fix all the architectural nits currently present in the kernel.
In fact, we expect to leave a trail of architectural nits that
will still be evident in many ways when FreeBSD 5.0 is released.
This is a pragmatic project rather than a theoretical one; we
need to have the kernel working and stable in under a year, so
time restraints require that we be realistic about what to do
when.</p>
<a name="plan"></a>
<h2>Project Plan</h2>
<p>This web page contains information related to the effort to
improve SMP support in FreeBSD. In general, this project uses
what it can from the BSD/OS 5.0 development kernel, and
re-implements what cannot be directly used due to divergence in
the code bases.</p>
<p>As with any free software project, a detailed schedule is not
possible. We expect to have significant performance and
stability issues that need to be worked through over the first
several months of the project, though every effort will be made
to keep -current running as well as possible.</p>
<p>The task list below is not intended to be complete, but does
represent a set of relevant and/or important components of the
overall work. The "Responsible" field identifies a developer who
has expressed willingness to be responsible for completing the
identified task; this doesn't preclude others working on it,
but suggests that coordination with the responsible party might
be appropriate so as to avoid unnecessary duplication of work,
and to maximize forward progress. If beginning work on a new
area of substantial size, or one that appears unclaimed, it may
be worth dropping an e-mail to the FreeBSD SMP mailing list to
see if any progress has been made.</p>
<p>The definition of the date field varies depending on the status
of a task. For completed tasks, it refers to the date completed
or reported completed. For in-progress tasks, it refers to the
date of the last update of the entry. For stalled tasks, it
refers to the date that the task was declared stalled. For
new tasks, it refers to the date the task was added to the list.</p>
<p>Locking down of individual device drivers is tracked at
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/projects/busdma">the busdma and
SMPng driver conversion webpage</a>.</p>
<p>Tasks are sorted first by status, then by date.</p>
<a name="resources"></a>
<h2>Resources and Links</h2>
<ul>
<li><p>
<a href="http://storm.uk.FreeBSD.ORG/~hiten/smp_synch_rules.html">
SMP kernel synchronization rules</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>Most SMP-related discussion takes place on the
<a href="mailto:freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.org">freebsd-smp</a>
mailing list. You can read more about mailing lists in the
<a href="../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL">
Electronic Resources chapter</a> of the
<a href="../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html">FreeBSD Handbook</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>Steve Passe has been maintaining a
<a href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html">SMP
project page</a> that contains additional information, and
goes back further in time than this web page.</p></li>
<li><p>&a.dillon; is maintaining a
<a href="http://apollo.backplane.com/FreeBSDSmp/">web page</a>
that documents the work he is doing on the SMP project.</p></li>
<li><p>
<a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/full_papers/baldwin/baldwin_html/index.html">
"Locking in the Multithreaded FreeBSD Kernel" USENIX paper by &a.jhb;</a>.</p></li>
</ul>
<a name="subsystems"></a>
<h2>Subsystems and Staffing</h2>
<p>This is an incomplete list of high-level kernel subsystems and
current, active staff working on SMP architecture and stability.</p>
<table border=3>
<tr>
<th> Subsystem </th>
<th> Status </th>
<th> Last updated </th>
<th> Staffing </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Newbus </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> &a.imp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> VM </td>
<td> In progress </td>
<td> 5 February 2003 </td>
<td> &a.alc;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Buffer cache </td>
<td> In progress </td>
<td> 8 February 2003 </td>
<td> &a.jeff;, &a.phk; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> VFS </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> &a.jeff; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Processes and thread operations </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Scheduler </td>
<td> Complete </td>
<td> 5 February 2003</td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> GEOM </td>
<td> Complete </td>
<td> 5 February 2003 </td>
<td> &a.phk; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> File descriptors </td>
<td> Complete </td>
<td> 5 February 2003 </td>
<td> &a.alfred;, &a.tanimura; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> TTY subsystem </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Pipe IPC </td>
<td> Complete, except for VM optimizations </td>
<td> 5 February 2003 </td>
<td> &a.alfred; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Socket structures and system calls </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> IPv4, IPv6 </td>
<td> In progress </td>
<td> 5 February 2003 </td>
<td> &a.hsu;, &a.jennifer; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Network stack infrastructure </td>
<td> In progress </td>
<td> 5 February 2003 </td>
<td> &a.hsu; </td>
</tr>
</table>
<a name="status"></a>
<h2>Tasks</h2>
<p>Following is an incomplete list of general tasks.</p>
<table border=3>
<tr>
<th> Task </th>
<th> Responsible </th>
<th> Last updated </th>
<th> Status </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Convert the giant lock from spinning to blocking, add the
scheduler lock, add per-CPU idle processes. </td>
<td> &a.dillon; </td>
<td> 25 June 2000 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Port the BSD/OS locking primitives (i386). </td>
<td> &a.jake; </td>
<td> 3 July 2000 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Implement heavy-weight interrupt threads (i386). </td>
<td> &a.grog; </td>
<td> 3 August 2000 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Rewrite the low level interrupt code (i386 UP). </td>
<td> &a.grog; </td>
<td> 3 August 2000 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Demonstrated reasonable stability (self-hosted buildworld)
(i386 UP). </td>
<td> -smp developers </td>
<td> 12 August 2000 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Port the BSD/OS locking primitives (alpha). </td>
<td> &a.dfr; </td>
<td> 24 August 2000 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Stub out (disable) spl()s. </td>
<td> &a.grog; </td>
<td> 30 August 2000 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Port the BSD/OS ktr code. </td>
<td> &a.grog;, &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 30 August 2000 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Rewrite the low level interrupt code (i386 SMP). </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 1 September 2000 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Demonstrated reasonable stability (self-hosted buildworld)
(i386 SMP). </td>
<td> -smp developers </td>
<td> 6 September 2000 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Demonstrated reasonable stability (self-hosted buildworld)
(alpha). </td>
<td> -smp developers </td>
<td> 6 September 2000 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Make malloc and friends thread-safe. </td>
<td> &a.jasone; </td>
<td> 10 September 2000 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Implement msleep(), make tsleep() an msleep() wrapper. </td>
<td> &a.jake; </td>
<td> 11 September 2000 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Make fxp driver thread-safe. </td>
<td> &a.cp; </td>
<td> 17 September 2000 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Make mbuf's thread-safe. </td>
<td> &a.bmilekic; </td>
<td> 29 September 2000 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock manager re-work. </td>
<td> &a.jasone; </td>
<td> 3 October 2000 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Implement heavy-weight interrupt threads (alpha). </td>
<td> &a.jhb;, &a.dfr; </td>
<td> 5 October 2000 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Rewrite the low level interrupt code (alpha). </td>
<td> &a.dfr;, &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 5 October 2000 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Process accounting. </td>
<td> &a.tegge;, &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 5 October 2000 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Make ethernet drivers thread-safe. </td>
<td> &a.wpaul; </td>
<td> 15 October 2000 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Make the mutex headers mostly machine-independent. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 20 October 2000 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Rename SMP_DEBUG to MUTEX_DEBUG. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 20 October 2000 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Give each soft interrupt its own thread. </td>
<td> &a.cp; </td>
<td> 25 October 2000 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Make sf_bufs (sendfile(2)) thread-safe. </td>
<td> &a.bmilekic; </td>
<td> 5 November 2000 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Make the witness code work correctly. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 18 November 2000 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Split the ktr-specific code out of db_interface.c. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 15 December 2000 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Convert the sio driver to using a spin mutex. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 18 December 2000 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Implement condition variables. </td>
<td> &a.jake;, &a.jasone; </td>
<td> 15 January 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Add a flag to mtx_init() (MTX_RECURSE) that denotes
whether a mutex is allowed to recurse. </td>
<td> &a.bmilekic; </td>
<td> 19 January 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Make the zone allocator thread-safe. </td>
<td> &a.des; </td>
<td> 21 January 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Convert simplelocks to mutexes. </td>
<td> &a.jasone; </td>
<td> 24 January 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Make kernel preemptive with respect to interrupts. </td>
<td> &a.jake; </td>
<td> 31 January 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Cleanup of mutex API. </td>
<td> &a.bmilekic; </td>
<td> 8 February 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Remove COM_LOCK. </td>
<td> &a.markm; </td>
<td> 11 February 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Merge various scheduling classes into one run queue.
Modify scheduler to support preemptable kernel. </td>
<td> &a.jake; </td>
<td> 11 February 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Make priority propagation work correctly. </td>
<td> &a.jake; </td>
<td> 11 February 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Make most of the interrupt thread code MI and shared
between hardware and software interrupts. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 18 February 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Add protection to struct jail and jail-related functionality. </td>
<td> &a.rwatson; </td>
<td> 20 February 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Implement sx (shared/exclusive) locks. </td>
<td> &a.jasone; </td>
<td> 5 March 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Generalize/improve witness to handle more complex locking
primitives (mtx, sx). </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 28 March 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Convert the allproc and proctree locks from lockmgr locks
to sx locks. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 28 March 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Make mbuf system use condition variables instead of
msleep()/wakeup(). </td>
<td> &a.bmilekic; </td>
<td> 2 April 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Remove &lt;sys/mutex.h&gt; includes from other kernel
headers such as &lt;vm/vm_zone.h&gt;, &lt;sys/resourcevar.h&gt;,
&lt;sys/ucred.h&gt;, and &lt;sys/mbuf.h&gt;. </td>
<td> &a.markm; </td>
<td> 15 May 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Cleanup the various mp_machdep.c's, unify various SMP
API's such as IPI delivery, etc. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 15 May 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Make most of the forward_* and forwarded_* functions MI. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 15 May 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Complete the MD support for SMP on the Alpha platform.</td>
<td> &a.gallatin;, &a.dfr;, &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 15 May 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Convert select() to use condition variables. </td>
<td> &a.tanimura; </td>
<td> 15 May 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Add a "giant" lock around the VM subsystem. </td>
<td> &a.alfred; </td>
<td> 13 June 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Introduce a modified slab allocator for the mbuf subsystem. </td>
<td> &a.bmilekic; </td>
<td> 21 June 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Add a witness_assert() function to handle lock assertions. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 27 June 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Extend sx locks to support try lock operations. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 27 June 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Document KTR. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 28 June 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Make fork_return, fork_exit, ast, and userret MI. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 29 June 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Make sched_lock's savecrit a per-process property saved
and restored in mi_switch and initialized in fork_exit. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 30 June 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Make ast() loop. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 10 August 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Add upgrade/downgrade sx lock operations. </td>
<td> Alexander Kabaev, &a.jasone; </td>
<td> 13 August 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Implement semaphores. </td>
<td> &a.jasone; </td>
<td> 14 August 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Add support for upgrade/downgrades in witness. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 23 August 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Make most of cpu_wait() and cpu_exit() MI. </td>
<td> &a.peter; </td>
<td> 9 September 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Split NFS into client and server. </td>
<td> &a.peter; </td>
<td> 18 Oct 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock taskqueues. </td>
<td> &a.arr;, &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 25 October 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Add a per-thread ucred reference. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 25 October 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Make most of the per-CPU stuff MI. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 11 December 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Make critical section saved state per-thread instead of per-lock
so that interlocking spin locks work properly. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 17 December 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Replace the APIC-specific imen_mtx with a MI-named icu_lock to
protect interrupt controllers and associated data within the kernel
for both i386 and alpha. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 20 December 2001 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Use the per-thread critical section nesting level in the mutex
and interrupt thread code to automatically determine when to not
preempt. This makes the MTX_NOSWITCH, SWI_SWITCH, and
SWI_NOSWITCH flags obsolete as the kernel will be able to figure
out the proper behavior on its own. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 5 January 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock struct filedesc and struct file. </td>
<td> &a.tanimura;, &a.alfred; </td>
<td> 12 January 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock struct pgrp, struct session, and struct sigio. </td>
<td> &a.tanimura; </td>
<td> 23 February 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock pipe implementation, but not sigio/fown, VM interactions </td>
<td> &a.alfred; </td>
<td> 27 February 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Move to explicit reference counting for soft vnode references.
</td>
<td> &a.phk; </td>
<td> 8 March 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Initialize mutex pools early enough that sx locks can be used
for VM. </td>
<td> &a.green; </td>
<td> 14 March 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Place a global lock (sellock) around selinfo structures to fix a
variety of lock order reversals, and make select() MP-safe. </td>
<td> &a.alfred;, &a.davidc; </td>
<td> 14 March 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Push down Giant on read, write, pread, pwrite system calls,
acquiring Giant in the per-subsystem fileop layer for sockets, VFS,
etc.</td>
<td> &a.alfred; </td>
<td> 15 March 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock down kernel module structures. </td>
<td> &a.arr; </td>
<td> 18 March 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock down kernel linker globals.</td>
<td> &a.arr; </td>
<td> 18 March 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Rewrite kernel memory allocator to be a slab allocator that
uses per-cpu caches. </td>
<td> &a.jeff; </td>
<td> 21 March 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Replace incorrect use of MD critical section API to disable
interrupts with a specific interrupt disable API. </td>
<td> &a.imp;, &a.dfr;, &a.benno;, &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 21 March 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock down access to the shared p_args "process arguments"
structure through appropriate protection of that structure and
references to it. </td>
<td> &a.mini; </td>
<td> 31 March 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Move from flags/tsleep lock to sx locks to protect sysctl
tree from updates during sysctl operations. </td>
<td> &a.mini; </td>
<td> 1 April 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Create/port userland tool to manage KTR event dumps. </td>
<td> &a.jake; </td>
<td> 1 April 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Create MTX_SYSINIT and SX_SYSINIT macros that allow for
initializing locks that are subsystem independent. </td>
<td> &a.arr; </td>
<td> 2 April 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock down the global securelevel variable. </td>
<td> &a.arr; </td>
<td> 2 April 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Make grow_stack() MI. Possibly even a macro or inline. </td>
<td> &a.alc; </td>
<td> 6 April 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock use of p_fd, which otherwise can result in corrupted
p_fd panics during heavy operation. Start with a global,
and move to per-proc locking. </td>
<td> &a.alfred;, &a.tanimura; </td>
<td> 8 April 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock struct pargs. </td>
<td> &a.mini; </td>
<td> 9 April 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Make {o,}sigreturn() MPSAFE. </td>
<td> &a.alc; </td>
<td> 11 April 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Rewrite kernel memory allocator so that Giant is not required
for malloc() or free(). </td>
<td> &a.jeff; </td>
<td> 2 May 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Replace complex shared/exclusive locking scheme in the VM
system with a purely exclusive lockmgr locking scheme, simplifying
locking and removing potential livelock/deadlock scenarios. </td>
<td> &a.green;, &a.alc; </td>
<td> 3 May 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Push down Giant into readv/writev system calls in style of
read/write/pread/pwrite once malloc no longer requires Giant in
the handling of iovec structures for uio. </td>
<td> &a.alc; </td>
<td> 9 May 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Push down Giant in mprotect(), minherit(), and madvise() so
that it is no longer acquired and released directly. </td>
<td> &a.alc; </td>
<td> 18 May 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Update suser() and p_can*() APIs to accept threads instead of
processes. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 18 May 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Broadly transition to td_ucred from p_ucred once KSE dependencies
are in place. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 18 May 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Add a witness_sleep() check to uma_zalloc() to catch code
calling malloc() or uma_zalloc() while holding non-sleepable
locks. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 20 May 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Optimize UP support by changing spin locks to only perform
critical section enter and exits. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 21 May 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Make sleep mutexes spin if the current lock holder is
executing on another CPU. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 21 May 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Add support for the IA32 pause instruction to spin loops in
locks. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 21 May 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Make KTRACE write into tracefiles asynchronously. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 7 June 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Remove Giant from jail(2). </td>
<td> &a.arr; </td>
<td> 25 June 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Remove Giant from modnext(2), modfnext(2),
modstat(2),and modfind(2).</td>
<td> &a.arr; </td>
<td> 25 June 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Fix synchronization of TLB flushes and invlpg() on x86 SMP. </td>
<td> &a.peter; </td>
<td> 12 July 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Make cpu_coredump MI. </td>
<td> &a.peter; </td>
<td> 7 September 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Add a subsystem lock to the accounting code. </td>
<td> &a.arr; </td>
<td> 11 September 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock down TrustedBSD MAC implementation. </td>
<td> &a.rwatson; </td>
<td> 11 November 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<!-- WIP -->
<tr>
<td> Lock struct proc. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 20 February 2001 </td>
<td> &status.wip; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Make the kernel fully preemptive. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 7 September 2001 </td>
<td> &status.wip; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock down the tty subsystem. </td>
<td> Dick Garner, Jeremy Scofield, &a.tmm; </td>
<td> 2 April 2002 </td>
<td> &status.wip; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Fix clock locking to be the same on all platforms. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 16 November 2001 </td>
<td> &status.wip; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock pipe implementation: sigio/fown-related evil </td>
<td> &a.alfred; </td>
<td> 27 February 2002 </td>
<td> &status.wip; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Make use of process locking and process reference counting
to protect debugging interfaces (and procfs). </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 27 February 2002 </td>
<td> &status.wip; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Make use of process locking to protect process monitoring
sysctls, including those employed by 'ps' and related tools.
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 27 February 2002 </td>
<td> &status.wip; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock down newbus infrastructure to support driver
fine-graining. </td>
<td> &a.imp; </td>
<td> 28 February 2002 </td>
<td> &status.wip; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Remove the MP safe syscall flag from the syscall table
and add explicit mtx_lock/unlock's of Giant to all
syscalls. </td>
<td> &a.dillon;, &a.mux; </td>
<td> 28 February 2002 </td>
<td> &status.wip; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> SMPng architecture document. </td>
<td> &a.jhb;, &a.rwatson; </td>
<td> 28 February 2002 </td>
<td> &status.wip; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Move to shared lock for VOP_GETATTR() to reduce blocking during
frequent lightweight VFS operations. Modify namei() to provide
a LOOKUP_SHARED flag to indicate when the lock required may be
shared instead of exclusive. </td>
<td> &a.jeff; </td>
<td> 11 March 2002 </td>
<td> &status.wip; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Create mutex profiling tool for the kernel so as to measure
contention and behavior of kernel mutexes. </td>
<td> &a.eivind;, &a.des; </td>
<td> 31 March 2002 </td>
<td> &status.wip; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock eventhandlers. </td>
<td> &a.msmith;, &a.mini; </td>
<td> 8 April 2002 </td>
<td> &status.wip; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock sysctl hierarchy and access methods. </td>
<td> &a.mini; </td>
<td> 9 April 2002 </td>
<td> &status.wip; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Document existing vm_map locking and verify it's correctness. </td>
<td> &a.alc; </td>
<td> 18 May 2002 </td>
<td> &status.wip; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Document existing vm_object locking and verify it's
correctness. </td>
<td> &a.alc; </td>
<td> 4 May 2002 </td>
<td> &status.wip; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Implement generic turnstiles to use when blocking on non-sleepable
locks. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 23 May 2002 </td>
<td> &status.wip; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock down linker_file_t structures in the kernel linker.</td>
<td> &a.arr; </td>
<td> 19 June 2002 </td>
<td> &status.wip; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock down the SysV IPC code. </td>
<td> &a.alfred; </td>
<td> 13 August 2002 </td>
<td> &status.wip; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Review locking strategy and correctness of VFS operations
and fix up various failure modes associated with enabling
VFS locking assertions. </td>
<td> &a.jeff; </td>
<td> 10 December 2002 </td>
<td> &status.wip; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Document in-vnode locking strategy, clean it up, remove
interlock, switch to sx locks. </td>
<td> &a.jeff; </td>
<td> 10 December 2002 </td>
<td> &status.wip; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Implement lazy interrupt thread switching (context
stealing) on i386. </td>
<td> &a.bmilekic;, &a.kan; </td>
<td> 10 December 2002 </td>
<td> &status.wip; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Implement lazy interrupt thread switching (context
stealing) on sparc64. </td>
<td> &a.jake; </td>
<td> 10 December 2002 </td>
<td> &status.wip; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Switch from using lockmgr in VM to using a mutex or exclusive
sxlock. Push down Giant on all VM except for vm_object/VFS and
vm_page/pmap components. </td>
<td> &a.alc; </td>
<td> 10 December 2002 </td>
<td> &status.wip; </td>
</tr>
<!-- Stalled -->
<tr>
<td> Create mechanism in cdevsw structure to protect
thread-unsafe drivers. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 15 May 2001 </td>
<td> &status.stalled; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Make printf() safe to call in almost any situation to avoid
deadlocks. </td>
<td> &a.cp; </td>
<td> 15 May 2001 </td>
<td> &status.stalled; </td>
</tr>
<!-- Not Started -->
<tr>
<td> Add locking to NFS. </td>
<td> &nbsp; </td>
<td> 15 May 2001 </td>
<td> &status.new; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Remove priority argument from tsleep(), msleep(),
cv_*wait*(). </td>
<td> &nbsp; </td>
<td> 12 January 2001 </td>
<td> &status.new; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Reimplement kqueue using condition variables. </td>
<td> &a.jlemon; </td>
<td> 15 March 2001 </td>
<td> &status.new; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Conditionalize atomic ops in the SMP code that are used
for debugging statistics. </td>
<td> &a.peter; </td>
<td> 15 March 2001 </td>
<td> &status.new; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Add a new witness check for exiting processes to verify that
an exiting process holds no locks. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 13 June 2001 </td>
<td> &status.new; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Specify priorities for condition variables, semaphores, and
sx locks. </td>
<td> &nbsp; </td>
<td> 7 September 2001 </td>
<td> &status.new; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Fix SIGXPU and other #if 0'd things in mi_switch(). </td>
<td> &nbsp; </td>
<td> 7 September 2001 </td>
<td> &status.new; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Axe schedpu() in favor of event driven priority updates as
much as possible. </td>
<td> &nbsp; </td>
<td> 7 September 2001 </td>
<td> &status.new; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Fix PHOLD() so that it blocks to guarantee PS_INMEM. </td>
<td> &nbsp; </td>
<td> 7 September 2001 </td>
<td> &status.new; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Fix *hold (e.g. crhold) to return reference to object. </td>
<td> &nbsp; </td>
<td> 7 September 2001 </td>
<td> &status.new; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Fix various procfs_machdep.c to use PHOLD, not sched_lock. </td>
<td> &nbsp; </td>
<td> 7 September 2001 </td>
<td> &status.new; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Add witness checking for lockmgr locks. </td>
<td> &nbsp; </td>
<td> 7 September 2001 </td>
<td> &status.new; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Add ICU spin locks on ia64. </td>
<td> &nbsp; </td>
<td> 4 January 2002 </td>
<td> &status.new; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Fast-path push-down of Giant for VOP_READ() and VOP_WRITE(). </td>
<td> &nbsp; </td>
<td> 25 February 2002 </td>
<td> &status.new; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock contention measurement tool to measure heat of various
locks, including Giant, and permit more directed performance and
locking strategy optimization. </td>
<td> &nbsp; </td>
<td> 25 February 2002 </td>
<td> &status.new; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Push the grabbing of Giant into Linux i386 ABI system calls.</td>
<td> &nbsp; </td>
<td> 25 February 2002 </td>
<td> &status.new; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Push the grabbing of Giant into Linux AXP ABI system calls.</td>
<td> &nbsp; </td>
<td> 25 February 2002 </td>
<td> &status.new; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Push the grabbing of Giant into SVR4 i386 ABI system calls.</td>
<td> &nbsp; </td>
<td> 25 February 2002 </td>
<td> &status.new; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Push the grabbing of Giant into OSF/1 AXP ABI system calls.</td>
<td> &nbsp; </td>
<td> 25 February 2002 </td>
<td> &status.new; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Push the grabbing of Giant into IBCS i386 ABI system calls.</td>
<td> &nbsp; </td>
<td> 25 February 2002 </td>
<td> &status.new; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock pipe implementation: VM optimizations. </td>
<td> &nbsp; </td>
<td> 27 February 2002 </td>
<td> &status.new; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Expand mutex profiling tool to also profile sx locks. </td>
<td> &a.eivind;, &a.des; </td>
<td> 1 April 2002 </td>
<td> &status.new; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Implement atomic_fetchadd() for int's and long's with acq and rel
versions. </td>
<td> &nbsp; </td>
<td> 23 May 2002 </td>
<td> &status.new; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Implement a simple reference count API using atomic operations and
use this to replace locks that just protect a reference count. </td>
<td> &nbsp; </td>
<td> 23 May 2002 </td>
<td> &status.new; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Implement a sleep queue abstraction to be used by both msleep()
and condition variables. This new abstraction should use a hash
table of sleep queues with a spin lock on each sleep queue chain
similar to turnstile chain locks to make sched_lock finger
grained.</td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 23 May 2002 </td>
<td> &status.new; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Add a witness_sleep() check to copyin/out() and s/fuword(). </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 7 June 2002 </td>
<td> &status.new; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Split witness_lock() into witness_checkorder() and
witness_lock(). witness_checkorder() would be called before
acquiring a lock to increase the changes of detecting and warning
about a reversal prior to deadlocking. witness_lock() would
simply update witness' internal state to note that a lock has
been acquired. </td>
<td> &a.jhb; </td>
<td> 7 June 2002 </td>
<td> &status.new; </td>
</tr>
<!--
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td> &nbsp; </td>
<td> D M 2002 </td>
<td> &status.new; </td>
</tr>
-->
</table>
<p>This table lists the todo subtasks for multithreading the network
stack.</p>
<table border=3>
<tr>
<th> Task </th>
<th> Responsible </th>
<th> Last updated </th>
<th> Status </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Protect network interface queues. </td>
<td> &a.jlemon; </td>
<td> 24 November 2000 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock up IP. </td>
<td> &a.jennifer;, &a.hsu; </td>
<td> 10 June 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock up TCP. </td>
<td> &a.jennifer;, &a.hsu; </td>
<td> 10 June 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock up UDP. </td>
<td> &a.jennifer;, &a.hsu; </td>
<td> 10 June 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock ifaddr reference counts. </td>
<td> &a.hsu; </td>
<td> 18 December 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock up syncache. </td>
<td> &a.hsu; </td>
<td> 19 December 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock up ifnet list. </td>
<td> &a.hsu; </td>
<td> 21 December 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock radix trees. </td>
<td> &a.hsu; </td>
<td> 23 December 2002 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock up ARP. </td>
<td> &a.hsu; </td>
<td> 16 January 2003 </td>
<td> &status.done; </td>
</tr>
<!-- WIP -->
<tr>
<td> Lock routing entries. </td>
<td> &nbsp; </td>
<td> 29 January 2003 </td>
<td> &status.wip; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock up raw IP. </td>
<td> &a.hsu; </td>
<td> 27 February 2003 </td>
<td> &status.wip; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock divert sockets. </td>
<td> &a.hsu; </td>
<td> 27 February 2003 </td>
<td> &status.wip; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock up Unix domain protocols. </td>
<td> &a.hsu; </td>
<td> 27 February 2003 </td>
<td> &status.wip; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock up IPv6. </td>
<td> &nbsp; </td>
<td> 27 February 2003 </td>
<td> &status.wip; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock struct ifnet. </td>
<td> &nbsp; </td>
<td> 19 January 2001 </td>
<td> &status.new; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Lock down struct socket. </td>
<td> &a.tanimura; </td>
<td> 21 April 2002 </td>
<td> &status.wip; </td>
</tr>
<!-- Not Started -->
<tr>
<td> Reduce contention upon locking a socket buffer by replacing
tsleep() and wakeup() with a condvar. </td>
<td> &a.tanimura; </td>
<td> 21 April 2002 </td>
<td> &status.new; </td>
</tr>
</table>
<a name="issues"></a>
<h2>Known Issues</h2>
<table border=3>
<tr>
<th> Issue </th>
<th> Last updated </th>
<th> Status </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Idle processor time is not charged to the idle processes. </td>
<td> 20 September 2000 </td>
<td> &status.resolved; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> microuptime creeps backwards. </td>
<td> 4 October 2000 </td>
<td> &status.resolved; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> microuptime() went backwards </td>
<td> 4 October 2000 </td>
<td> &status.resolved; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Process accounting is not accurate (the more CPUs, the
closer to correct it is). </td>
<td> 5 October 2000 </td>
<td> &status.resolved; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> M_DEVBUF is probably the wrong memory pool for interrupt
stuff and we should think about creating a new malloc pool for
that stuff. </td>
<td> 9 February 2001 </td>
<td> &status.resolved; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> PC card eject panics due to a race condition in the
interrupt thread code. </td>
<td> 15 March 2001 </td>
<td> &status.resolved; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> SMP x86 boxes are seeing NCPU * 100 clk interrupts and
NCPU * 128 rtc interrupts. </td>
<td> 15 May 2001 </td>
<td> &status.resolved; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Witness will infinitely recurse when it acquires Giant after
sleeping with a sleepable lock. </td>
<td> 27 June 2001 </td>
<td> &status.resolved; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Serial gdb does not work if boot_ddb and boot_gdb options
are specified. </td>
<td> 14 July 2002 </td>
<td> &status.resolved; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Serial gdb does not work at 115200 baud. </td>
<td> 14 July 2002 </td>
<td> &status.resolved; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Serial gdb never regains control once 'cont' has been
entered. </td>
<td> 14 July 2002 </td>
<td> &status.resolved; </td>
</tr>
<!-- unresolved -->
<tr>
<td> Profiling is broken. </td>
<td> 20 February 2001 </td>
<td> &status.unresolved; </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> jail_sysvipc_allowed is checked in an unsafe manner in
the SYSV IPC syscalls. </td>
<td> 5 March 2002 </td>
<td> &status.unresolved; </td>
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<h2>News</h2>
<p>The remainder of this page is structured as a
reverse-chronological log.</p>
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<b>13 January 2002</b>
<ul>
<li>
<p>A <a href =
"http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=122646+0+archive/2002/freebsd-smp/20020113.freebsd-smp">
status report</a> was sent to the -smp mailing list.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<b>15 May 2001</b>
<ul>
<li>
<p>&a.grog; has made his <a href =
"http://www.lemis.com/~grog/SMPng/USENIX/">USENIX paper</a> available,
which he will present in Boston at the end of June.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<b>22 March 2001</b>
<ul>
<li>
<p>A <a href =
"http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=41302+0+archive/2001/freebsd-smp/20010325.freebsd-smp">
status report</a> was sent to the -smp mailing list.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<b>5 March 2001</b>
<ul>
<li>
<p>A <a href =
"http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=0+0+archive/2001/freebsd-smp/20010311.freebsd-smp">
status report</a> was sent to the -smp mailing list.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<b>24 January 2001</b>
<ul>
<li>
<p>A <a href =
"http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=38125+0+archive/2001/freebsd-smp/20010128.freebsd-smp">
status report</a> was sent to the -smp mailing list.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<b>12 January 2001</b>
<ul>
<li>
<p>A <a href =
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=45111+48223+/usr/local/www/db/text/2001/freebsd-smp/20010114.freebsd-smp">
status report</a> was sent to the -smp mailing list.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<b>11 October 2000</b>
<ul>
<li>
<p>&a.jhb; and &a.cp; came up with a preliminary list of
<a href="http://storm.uk.FreeBSD.ORG/~hiten/smp_synch_rules.html">rules
</a> that should be followed when working on kernel
synchronization.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<b>8 September 2000</b>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Here's a copy of an <a
href="http://people.freebsd.org/~jasone/smp/smp_article">article</a>
sent to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/">BSDtoday</a> and linked at
<a href="http://daily.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<b>6 September 2000</b>
<ul>
<li>
<p>The SMP code has been committed. All further work is being
done in cvs rather than with patches.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>An updated <a
href="http://people.freebsd.org/~jasone/smp/smpng_patch_9.7">patch</a>
is available for download. This patch is probably what will
actually get committed.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<b>5 September 2000</b>
<ul>
<li>
<p>An updated <a
href="http://people.freebsd.org/~jasone/smp/smpng_patch_9.1">patch</a>
is available for download. This patch makes rtc a fast
interrupt, uses locked instructions for mutexes in MP kernels,
and corrects mtx_*() linkage within modules.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<b>1 September 2000</b>
<ul>
<li>
<p>The code is working for the most part now on i386 (UP and MP).
Some additional coding is still necessary for the alpha,
which is being done now.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<b>30 August 2000</b>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Updated patches for i386 and alpha are available <a href =
"http://people.freebsd.org/~jasone/smp/smpng_patch8.6">here</a>.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<b>12 August 2000</b>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Updated patches for i386 are available <a href =
"http://www.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/smpng.patch6">here</a>.
Process accounting still doesn't work correctly, but a number
of other improvements have been made.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<b>3 August 2000</b>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Patches with functional heavy-weight threads for the i386
platform are available <a href =
"http://people.freebsd.org/~grog/patches4.gz">here</a>.
There are a couple of minor issues with this patch set.
Specifically, process accounting doesn't work correctly.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<b>6 July 2000</b>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Sheldon Hearn has prepared a mutex(9) man page based on the
BSD/OS one, which is available <a href =
"http://people.freebsd.org/~jake/mutex.9">here</a>.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<b>5 July 2000</b>
<ul>
<li>
<p>&a.jake; put an updated patch <a href =
"http://people.freebsd.org/~jake/smpng.diff">here</a>.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<b>3 July 2000</b>
<ul>
<li>
<p>&a.jake; has the BSD/OS lock code working now, and has
incorporated the pertinent portions of &a.dillon;'s patches
(idle processes, some of the schedlock changes, etc.).
His patch set is available <a href =
"http://people.freebsd.org/~jake/smpng2.tar">here</a>.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<b>26 June 2000</b>
<ul>
<li>
<p>&a.cp; has provided the PostScript versions of his
presentation slides for the
<a href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jasone/smp/smp_meeting_slides_1.ps">first day</a> and
<a href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jasone/smp/smp_meeting_slides_2.ps">second day</a> of the
SMP meeting.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<b>25 June 2000</b>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Here's a copy of the
<a href="http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=226208+0+archive/2000/freebsd-smp/20000625.freebsd-smp">SMP meeting summary</a>
that was posted to the -smp mailing list.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<b>19 June 2000</b>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Here's a copy of the
<a href="http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=154884+0+archive/2000/freebsd-current/20000625.freebsd-current">SMP project announcement</a>
that was posted to the -current mailing list.</p>
</li>
</ul>
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