Re: CFD: XMLification of NOTES

From: Bruce Evans (bde_at_zeta.org.au)
Date: 04/01/04

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To: John Baldwin <john@baldwin.cx>

    On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, John Baldwin wrote:

    > On Tuesday 30 March 2004 06:54 pm, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
    > > CPU_I386 should not conflict with SMP, but a kernel build with both
    > > will be very slow.
    >
    > No, it does conflict. There's no cmpxchg on i386 and no one has had the
    > desire or time to emulate one for 386 machines. Doing so would be a waste in
    > my opinion as well.

    des only claimed that it "should not".

    Emulating cmpxchg might make a kernel built with both slow, but the
    current CPU_I386 only adds a tiny amount of slowness. It just doesn't
    work on multi-CPU systems if multiple CPUs are actually used.

    Does it actually conflict in practice (except for the forced #error)
    if the hardware is UP? jhb's APIC changes made configuring with SMP
    not require APIC, so SMP kernels work on UP systems. Configuring with
    I386_CPU shouldn't affect this, but it does because of the forced #error
    at compile time.

    Bruce
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