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From: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] [PATCH] userspace: Make CONFIG_SMP default
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>
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Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Disabling SMP (on platforms where this isn't off by design already) is
> an optimization. In contrast, not enabling it by default is doomed to
> cause problems for users that run ./configure without looking into each
> and every switch - now that CONFIG_SMP is very important for all the
> fast locking stuff.

I would consider setting CONFIG_SMP by default on x86... because on some
other architectures like arm, it is not even yet a valid configuration.

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                                                 Gilles.