Re: [Xenomai-core] CONFIG_SMP in switchtest

[Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>]

On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 19:59 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> > Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >> Philippe Gerum wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 08:42 +0200, M. Koehrer wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi everybody,
> >>>>
> >>>> I want to know why the --enable-smp option for "configure" of Xenomai is used when there
> >>>> is already the corresponding option selected with the kernel configuration?
> >>> --enable-smp is only used when you want the user-space side to _require_
> >>> SMP support to be present into the running kernel; i.e. for some (weird)
> >>> reason, your application really needs this. Xenomai libraries don't care
> >>> whether SMP support is enabled or not, they are not sensitive to that
> >>> issue (see the "weak" status of this option in README.INSTALL)
> >>
> >> Switchtest bases some compile-time decisions on CONFIG_SMP. Nitpicking,
> >> OK, but I wonder if this is required. Gilles?
> > 
> > If you do not enable the smp option, switchtest will only use one cpu.
> > The reason why I made this is that, on some UP machine, (probably arm,
> > but I do no longer remember) sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN) did not work.
> 
> Welcome to embedded hell :-/. What was the effect precisely? Can we
> detect this during runtime? The point is I see people trying this test
> on SMP without providing the right switch to configure. Would be a pity
> IMHO.
> 
> At this chance: I also noticed problems with our sched_setscheduler
> detection and bfin's uClibc. Compilations works, linking fails - they
> provide headers, but lack implementations. Patch suggestion will follow.
> 

The main point with the Blackfin port is: which uclinux-dist release are
you using? We are currently based on 2007R1-RC3. The uclinux-dist effort
is still largely in flux right now, so this makes a significant
difference.

> And my pthread_spin_lock detection got nicely vaporised on bfin once
> again. I'm considering to switch back to the original configure-based
> detection.
> 
> Enough of the moaning.
> 
> Jan
> 
-- 
Philippe.