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author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2011-02-22 09:48:31 +0100 |
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committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2011-02-22 09:48:31 +0100 |
commit | fee874eec9933d1eaaf8fe19a0a51202604ba06b (patch) | |
tree | b3570194b54d940d6cf9d858dfaee86f00951d6a /hurd | |
parent | b811e75bf5f2aff49db783b5ecb0aaa21a4f3a70 (diff) |
hurd/faq/smp -> faq/smp.
This is a general GNU/Hurd system question.
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diff --git a/hurd/faq/smp.mdwn b/hurd/faq/smp.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index af748454..00000000 --- a/hurd/faq/smp.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,25 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2011 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 uses one logical processor (i.e. one core or one thread, depending on the socket type). |