Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:43:44 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
       Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Gerd Knorr <kraxel@suse.de>,
       Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
       Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
       Pratap Subrahmanyam <pratap@vmware.com>,
       Christopher Li <chrisl@vmware.com>,
       "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [patch] SMP alternatives
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> THAT is what I'd like to have CPU support for. Not for UP (it's going 
> away), and not for the kernel (it's never single-threaded).

There is one reasonly interesting special case that will probably stay
around: single CPU guest in a virtualized environment.

-Andi
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