Re: SMP kernels on single processor machines
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2004-05-20 23:56:58
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. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/