From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: SMP kernels on single processor machines From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Lee Braiden Cc: linuxppc-dev list , "debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org" In-Reply-To: <40AC9B08.7010602@member.fsf.org> References: <40AC9B08.7010602@member.fsf.org> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1085097417.9801.5.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 09:56:58 +1000 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/