On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 06:52:19AM +0200, Pasi Pirhonen wrote: > > The SMP host integrity fixes in this version now allow reliable, accurate > > emulation of SMP systems on SMP x86 and AMD64 hosts. At present, SMP Mac OS > > X hosts do not have the facilities needed to take advantage of this > > enhancement; thus, emulation of SMP systems on Macs is discouraged. > I am little slow on waking up, but does above or something else mean > that it would be now safe to run with NTPL? I've vigorously used > LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 with my instances up till today since NTPL came > along and was causing problems.
No...what it means is that there are assembler assists for x86 and AMD64 that allow stomic operations on the emulated system to be done atomically on the host as well. This prevents values from changing in the middle of an operation, causing inconsistent results. > Another, maybe funny thing, is that i've ran hercules under SMP w/ > emulated SMP past some 18 months and it has never been an issue for me. > Ever since i bought my first dual-opteron. I know that I could crash it reliably on a multiprocessor x86. > PS. The provided .src.rpm is _still_ broken for x86-64. One just can't > assume things like /usr/lib being _libdir ..... Oops. Sorry about that. Can it be made portable? I don't have an RPM-based OS on my Opteron, and it builds fine on an Alpha... -- Jay Maynard, K5ZC http://www.conmicro.cx http://www.tronguy.net (Yes, that's me!) http://jmaynard.livejournal.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
