Subject: Re: UltraSPARC-T1 docs
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/27/2006 02:06:32
>> there's nothing like eight full cores to help shake out race
>> conditions when the time does come to break down the big monolithic
>> kernel...
> You can already simulate 8+ cores with qemu you know :)
Perhaps, but it is *hard* to simulate all the simultaneity races and
suchlike that will break careless locking. You almost have to go to
simulating at the clock-cycle level.
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