Depuis le 2.6.17 et "SMP-alternatives", le noyau ne devrait-il plus exister qu'en une seule version (pour x86) supportant indifféremment les systèmes SMP et non-SMP ?
[...] Gerd's SMP alternatives patch is an implementation of this concept. It creates an new macro (alternative_smp()) which can be used to specify optimal implementations of an operation on both uniprocessor and SMP systems; the proper version will then be selected at runtime. [...]
# SMP
Posté par lurker . En réponse à la dépêche Slackware-current se réveille. Évalué à 4.
http://lwn.net/Articles/164121/
[...] Gerd's SMP alternatives patch is an implementation of this concept. It creates an new macro (alternative_smp()) which can be used to specify optimal implementations of an operation on both uniprocessor and SMP systems; the proper version will then be selected at runtime. [...]