[Th] SMP for all!

[Paweł Gołaszewski]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Jakub Bogusz 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)?

But... these are broken_smp_kernel or broken_on_smp_machine ?

It's quite important difference :)

AFAIR debian has SMP kernel by default...

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