On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 01:51:12PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="James Gregory"> > > > Right. Which is what I've found too. Which led me to wondering: Jeff: how > > do you plan to do this UP/SMP kernel efficiently? > > Ben Collins (our kernel maintainer) forward ported an old 2.4 patch and put > it in our git repository - maintained on kernel.org -> WE ROCK! It switches > locks to noops at boot time. It's not 100%, and definitely in dapper atm as > early stage testing rather than an intent to ship.
Are you talking about Gerd Knorr's SMP alternatives patch, or something else? <http://lwn.net/Articles/163810/> Anand -- `When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know," the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives' -- Robert A Heinlein, "If this goes on --"
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