Re: [PATCH] include/asm-i386/semaphore.h speedup

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Thu, 14 Jan 1999 15:46:28 -0300

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Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de> said:
> Right, but this requires a config dependency: M386 impossible with SMP
> set. Or you could build an SMP kernel with the needed lock missing.

AFAIU, SMP can't be done with i386 (as opposed to i[456]86) anyway.
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