Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Jun 2005 04:25:20 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [rfc: patch 0/6] scalable fd management |
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On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 04:20:42PM +0530, Dipankar Sarma wrote: > I would appreciate if someone tests this on an arch without > cmpxchg (sparc32??). I intend to run some more tests > with preemption enabled and also on ppc64 myself.
sparc32 SMP is not going to be a good choice for this. By and large ll/sc -style architectures don't have explicit cmpxchg instructions so ppc64 at least nominally fits the bill. SMP Alpha testing may also be enlightening (as usual).
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