Thread (8 messages) 8 messages, 5 authors, 2004-05-21

Re: SMP kernels on single processor machines

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2004-05-20 23:56:58

On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 21:48, Lee Braiden wrote:
But I quit doing that at some point, after someone (authoritative, but I
can't remember the details) pointed out that it added complexity,
debugging issues, etc.  Given that I *already* have problems with PPC
kernels -- latency/lockups, (preempting?), alsa sound, video res, etc.,
I personally wouldn't go near this until I'm fairly confident that the
other stuff is solid in its own right.

But then, I'm just a luser, not a kernel maintainer ;D
Yah, well... CONFIG_PREEMPT gives you all the problems of SMP without
any benefit so .... :)

Ben.


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