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Re: Linux w/ smp - is it necessary to build arla special?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Magnus Ahltorp)
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To: "Neulinger, Nathan R." <nneul@umr.edu>
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Subject: Re: Linux w/ smp - is it necessary to build arla special?
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From: Magnus Ahltorp <map@stacken.kth.se>
Date: 24 Feb 1999 23:11:07 +0100
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> Is it necessary to build arla special on an SMP machine, or will a non-smp
> build work?
>
> If the non-SMP build will work, it saves me from having to maintain two
> separate builds of arla.
I'm sorry, but the kernel module is compiled differently, since the
locking macros look different in SMP and non-SMP (the interprocessor
locking is removed on non-SMP kernels).
It is however, possible to run an SMP kernel on a UP machine.
/Magnus
map@stacken.kth.se
