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author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> | 2013-04-13 10:36:54 +0200 |
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committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> | 2013-04-13 11:11:01 +0200 |
commit | 38cfa89677eabc85fc23e31e24cee85fb1ecfa54 (patch) | |
tree | 45822eb14eb11bdf7e96f0b8f3c5c7f0b9f81b88 /faq/support/smp.mdwn | |
parent | d8ba0864d2cc74397960060b79a8c9154bb16d34 (diff) |
Rework FAQ machinery to be based on tags instead of filenames.
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diff --git a/faq/support/smp.mdwn b/faq/support/smp.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 04396401..00000000 --- a/faq/support/smp.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,31 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2011, 2013 Free Software Foundation, -Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation -License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -[[!meta title="Does GNU/Hurd support SMP/Multicore?"]] - -The Hurd servers themselves are multithreaded, so they should be able to take benefit of the parallelism brought by SMP/Multicore boxes. This has however never been tested yet because of the following. - -[[microkernel/Mach]] used to be running on SMP boxes like the [[!wikipedia -Intel_iPSC/860]], so principally has the required infrastructure. It has -however not yet been enhanced to support nowadays' SMP standards like ACPI, -etc. Also, [[GNU Mach|microkernel/mach/gnumach]]'s Linux device driver glue -code likely isn't SMP-safe. As this glue code layer is not used in the -[[microkernel/mach/gnumach/ports/Xen]] port of GNU Mach, the plan is to try it -in this enviroment first. - -[[!tag open_issue_gnumach open_issue_xen]] - -That is why for now GNU/Hurd will only use one logical processor (i.e. one core or one thread, depending on the socket type). - -Once this issue is solved, there are follow-up issues about -[[open_issues/multiprocessing]] and [[open_issues/multithreading]]. - -[[GSoC project idea|gsoc/project_ideas/smp]]. |