Dmitri Nikulin wrote:
On 3/24/07, Gergo Szakal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Well, I've been thinking of the SMP/UP issue many times, and the best solution would be if SMP kernels could boot on UP machines. I have plenty UP boxes and a few SMP boxes to test on. I am not claiming anyhing, this is just 'food for thought'.Don't they? I thought the only problem for most cases is that the SMP kernels do more heavyweight locking and are therefore slower, and without the gain of parallelism on UP it's a pure loss.
DragonFly SMP expects multiple processors, and will die if it doesn't find any, iirc when it tries to detect other APICs. As an example of working SMP-kernel-on-UP-hardware, see NetBSD (which doesn't involve boottime binary patching, btw).
Cheers,
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Thomas E. Spanjaard
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