Re: Portable binary modules

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 2 Dec 1999 17:03:14 +0000 (GMT)


> Something I have wondered about for a while is how difficult would it be to
> make SMP modules run in a non-SMP kernel. Is it as easy as having the UP
> kernels provide dummy locking functions which always say they aquired a lock
> but dont really try?

Not at the binary level. Our uniprocessor builds make most spinlocks become
null code or local cli/sti instructions. That avoids us taking the performance
hit. It also means that the locks the SMP module wants to use are not
actually there in truth.

Alan

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