From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Lee Braiden <lee_b@member.fsf.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>,
"debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org"
<debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: SMP kernels on single processor machines
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 09:56:58 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1085097417.9801.5.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40AC9B08.7010602@member.fsf.org>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-20 23:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-20 10:58 SMP kernels on single processor machines Jens Schmalzing
2004-05-20 11:48 ` Lee Braiden
2004-05-20 23:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-05-21 10:34 ` Giuliano Pochini
2004-05-21 11:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-21 12:30 ` Lee Braiden
2004-05-21 12:58 ` Marius Groeger
2004-05-21 23:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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