Re: openmosix compile with 2.6.13 linux kernel
tab-mTI/[email protected] (Vincent Hanquez)
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.cluster.openmosix.devel |
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| 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 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php