Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:25:13 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: VM fixes [4/4] |
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On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 19:22:19 +0100 Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote: >> If those old cpus really supported smp in linux, then fixing this bit is >> trivial, just change it to short. Do they support short at least?
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 12:55:04PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > No, they do not. The smallest atomic unit is one 32-bit word. > And yes there are SMP systems using these chips.
Would systems described as ev56 by /proc/cpuinfo have such chips?
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