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Re: arla on Linux SMP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (A.J.Martin)
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From: "A.J.Martin" <A.J.Martin@qmw.ac.uk>
To: Magnus Ahltorp <map@stacken.kth.se>
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Subject: Re: arla on Linux SMP
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On 14 Aug 1998, Magnus Ahltorp wrote:
> > I have trivially added -D__SMP__ to the xfs Makefile, and it
> > appears to solved the problems I saw yesterday.
>
> Do you have a general solution as to when -D__SMP__ should be used and
> when it shouldn't? How do I know that the compilation is done for an
> SMP kernel?
>
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor | wc -l
should normally give the number of processors (assuming /proc is
mounted). Maybe there is a better way?
cheers,
Alex Martin
