[Th] SMP for all!

[Jakub Bogusz]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:32:54PM +0100, Rafał Cygnarowski wrote:
> 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...).

What about modules marked as BROKEN_ON_SMP since the beginning (of
BROKEN_ON_SMP flag)?


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