[Th] SMP for all!

[Rafał Cygnarowski]

Dnia poniedziałek, 22 stycznia 2007, Jacek Konieczny napisał:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 01:42:52PM +0100, Paweł Sikora wrote:
> > iirc not all stuff works fine in smp enviroment.
> > e.g. some lirc drivers, video tuners, tape/floppy drivers.
>
> But most of that will work well with SMP kernel on a single
> processor/core. For multi-CPU machines (including multi-core and
> hyper-threading) kernel boot options may be used to limit number of
> logical CPU available for system. I think that should be enough to limit
> mentioned problems, like UP kernel would limit them.

Besides... if there is problem with thouse devices on smp kernel than it 
should be fixed and I think it's the correct way to solve problem (not 
running away to up kernel...).

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Rafał Cygnarowski
rafi at pers.pl