Re: openmosix compile with 2.6.13 linux kernel

tab-mTI/[email protected] (Vincent Hanquez)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.cluster.openmosix.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:49:00PM +0200, jamie wrote:
> Thanks for your help. Everything seems to compile fine now. I was 
> wondering... if you disable SMP does this mean linux applications will 
> be unable to take advantage of the dual core processors. 

yes 

> Seems like a 
> waste of good hardware.

yes, send patches to enable SMP.

> What are the likely consequences if SMP is 
> enabled - will the cluster nodes lockup at some point?

Nothing is protected against reentrancy (no spinlock).
so races, crash, unexpected behavior ...

> Also, when you 
> expect openmosix 2.6 kernel code to support SMP?

when somebody will send patches. I've got too much to do in another area
of openMosix to be able to look into that.

-- 
Vincent Hanquez


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