Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Compatible with i386/UP but optimised for i686/SMP [was Re: test_and_set_bit() not atomic forever?] | Date | Tue, 02 Jun 1998 10:30:57 +0100 | From | Philip Blundell <> |
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In message <19980601115448.35720@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>, Jamie Lokier writes : >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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