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| author | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2011-03-02 23:57:52 +0100 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2011-03-02 23:57:52 +0100 |
| commit | a8bb9b64b2130101c387e7130b935c2b693cc3d4 (patch) | |
| tree | 361aaf61a6b8009b928ddd936a478ab40e58c5f7 /hurd | |
| parent | 97366e18660f7e6c69363a9e4d7508964f523681 (diff) | |
| parent | e4582a8e1da86a3d6098aac2420a1459934a3c84 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of flubber:~hurd-web/hurd-web
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| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/faq/smp.mdwn | 17 |
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diff --git a/hurd/faq/smp.mdwn b/hurd/faq/smp.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index e48b6b66..00000000 --- a/hurd/faq/smp.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 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. - -Mach used to be running on SMP boxes like the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iPSC/860 | iPSC 860]], so has an infrastructure for running on them. It has however not (yet) been ported to nowadays' SMP standards like ACPI etc. The plan is to try Xen SMP support first. - -That is why for now GNU/Hurd will only uses one logical processor (i.e. one core or one thread, depending on the socket type). |