Re: spinlocks

I figured that Theo normally dispenses the OpenBSD funds to developers, so in starting this sideshow get some advise from theo about his plans for the next OpenBSD release because as has been pointed out before, the integration of SMP touches every or at least lots of inches in OpenBSD and if theo is not cooperative, due different priorities for OpenBSD you are essentially throwing away your money.

PS I'll be interested in funding 1 developerhour per month at least for the first three months. After that a progress report would be in order to see if we are throwing our money away in this SMP project. See if you can get the other 160-200 hours filled up. My preference would be doing it via the openbsd paypall if possible.

You could also pay him to be an coder/coordinator because there must be some people on this list who have some time and some knowlegde (Bachelor Computer Science) to be educated on what to look for in the openbsd code and rewrite it to be reentrant / SMP safe. This way the money invested in the coder might be more effecient in the long run because your create more people who can code and diagnose SMP problems.

On Wednesday 26 March 2003 19:15, Chris Cameron wrote:
> Nah, I've been thinking a little more and I think this could work.

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