From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.17-rc3 -- SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 13:41:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4461D16A.3000301@keyaccess.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4461B24A.7050805@suse.de>
Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Rene Herman wrote:
>> Should I be seeing this "SMP alternatives" thing on a !CONFIG_SMP
>> kernel? It does say 0k, but something is apparently being done at
>> runtime still. Why?
>
> The UP kernel has empty alternatives tables (as you've noticed), thus
> the code doesn't do anything. Nevertheless it probably makes sense to
> add a few #ifdef CONFIG_SMP lines to avoid confusing people and safe a
> few bytes ...
Okay, thanks. Yes, I agree such would make sense.
Rene.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-10 11:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-10 0:30 2.6.17-rc3 -- SMP alternatives: switching to UP code Rene Herman
2006-05-10 1:55 ` Chase Venters
2006-05-10 9:28 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-05-10 11:41 ` Rene Herman [this message]
2006-05-11 12:13 ` [patch] SMP alternatives: skip with UP kernels Gerd Hoffmann
2006-05-11 21:07 ` Rene Herman
2006-05-12 11:41 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-05-15 21:41 ` Rene Herman
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