Re: [patch] SMP alternatives

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Nov 25 2005 - 15:28:20 EST


Chris Wedgwood wrote:
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 01:36:08PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

Actual UP machines are going to go away - even ARM is going SMP, and
in the PC space, we'll have multi-core laptops probably being the
rule rather than the exception in a couple of years.

CPUs in embedded the space could outnumber desktops & servers greatly
(cell phones, access pointers, routers, media players, etc). Most of
these will be UP for some time.

It's unlikely, though, that you'd have a need to run an SMP-compiled kernel on these devices.

-hpa
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