Re: [patch] SMP alternatives

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Wed Nov 23 2005 - 17:31:42 EST


Hi!


> >The idea was to turn LOCK on only if the process has any
> >shared writable mapping and num_online_cpus() > 0.
>
> Yep. Though I presume you mean "> 1".
>
> One hopes that num_online_cpus() never reaches zero during runtime ;-)

Actually num_online_cpus() is very usefull -- suspend to RAM ;-))))).

Pavel
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Thanks, Sharp!
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