From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <40ADF663.1060100@member.fsf.org> Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 13:30:27 +0100 From: Lee Braiden MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org" Cc: linuxppc-dev list Subject: Re: SMP kernels on single processor machines References: <40AC9B08.7010602@member.fsf.org> <1085097417.9801.5.camel@gaston> In-Reply-To: <1085097417.9801.5.camel@gaston> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Yah, well... CONFIG_PREEMPT gives you all the problems of SMP without > any benefit so .... :) Well, I know people argue about that, but I think it was you who advised me to avoid PREEMPT before, so I'll take your word for it. But... what you said above was exactly my point. There are no benefits for single-cpu machines running an SMP kernel, right? So it would introduce more complexity for no gain. Moreover, I think(?) the majority of ppc machines are non-smp, so it would also be a shift to a more obscure and (even) less well-tested config. -- Lee Braiden lee_b@member.fsf.org ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/