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SubjectRe: Compatible with i386/UP but optimised for i686/SMP [was Re: test_and_set_bit() not atomic forever?]
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In message <19980601115448.35720@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>, Jamie Lokier writes
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>On Mon, Jun 01, 1998 at 09:27:00AM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
>> >The point was that lots of people are running SMP kernels on UP machines,
>> >where it's gratuitous overhead.
>>
>> Then they shouldn't do that.
>
>Unless they're a distributor who wants to run one kernel per
>architecture, + modules.

It's not that hard to make two kernels per architecture rather than one. I
think this is a far better solution than trying to get rid of SMP at run time.

p.



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