Re: SMP kernel on uniprocessor system?

afei@jhu.edu
Mon, 04 Oct 1999 09:52:07 -0400 (EDT)

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> On Sun, 3 Oct 1999 afei@jhu.edu wrote:
>
> >The disadvantage is obvious: It will greatly reduce the performance,
> >especially the scheduling/rescheduling part within the kernel.
>
> Not true. If the SMP scheduler works bad on a UP processor then it's the
> SMP scheduler to be buggy.
The SMP scheduler used on a UP, even work perfectly, is a waste of CPU
time and memory. Check it out.
>
> Andrea
>

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