Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:42:32 -0500 (EST) | From | Richard A Nelson <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.1-pre1 breaks XFree 4.0.2 and "w" |
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> It doesn't make much sense to me to put the "can_I_use" global information in > the per-cpu slots, that's obviously the wrong place for it. We simply need to > add a new entry to /proc (say "/proc/osinfo") to provide the "can_I_use" > informations instead (TSC included). Breaking /proc/cpuinfo isn't the way to > go IMHO.
Sorry, but you're not taking the long view here, "can_I_use" most definetly should be per-cpu...
Its fine either way on current x86 and many other platforms, but falls on its face in the presence of asymetric MP. -- Rick Nelson Netscape is not a newsreader, and probably never shall be. -- Tom Christiansen
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