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RE: [Xen-devel] A question about CONFIG_SMP

To: "Keir Fraser" <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] A question about CONFIG_SMP
From: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:31:10 +0800
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>From: Keir Fraser [mailto:Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: 2006年2月23日 17:47
>
>On 23 Feb 2006, at 08:51, Tian, Kevin wrote:
>
>> Just a curious question, does anyone still care xen/UP? If yes, current
>> xen-unstable.hg
>> failed to build quickly after undef CONFIG_SMP since many structures
>> include types
>> defined only when CONFIG_SMP is on.
>>
>> Just realize this issue when cleanup some IA64 code recently, where
>> CONFIG_SMP is still unstable and thus UP only.
>>
>> Is there any benefit to have xen/UP? Reducing image size is the
>> immediate answer in my head...
>
>It's not supported for xen/x86 at least. Dynamically adding LOCK
>prefixes if the system turns out to be multiprocessor is the only
>optimisation I think would be worthwhile. But really
>multi-processor/core/thread is what we care about.
>
>  -- Keir

Yep, agree. It's just raised out in case anyone has some special/meaningful 
usage model coming. :-)

Thanks,
Kevin

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