Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932535AbVKXAzY (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:55:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932607AbVKXAzY (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:55:24 -0500 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:19847 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932535AbVKXAzW (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:55:22 -0500 Message-ID: <43850F66.8010500@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:55:02 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , "H. Peter Anvin" , Gerd Knorr , Dave Jones , Zachary Amsden , Pavel Machek , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Zwane Mwaikambo , Pratap Subrahmanyam , Christopher Li , "Eric W. Biederman" , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [patch] SMP alternatives References: <438359D7.7090308@suse.de> <1132764133.7268.51.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20051123163906.GF20775@brahms.suse.de> <1132766489.7268.71.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4384AECC.1030403@zytor.com> <1132782245.13095.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20051123214344.GU20775@brahms.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20051123214344.GU20775@brahms.suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.1 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "srv2.dvmed.net", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: Andi Kleen wrote: >>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. [...] Content analysis details: (0.1 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.1 RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL RBL: SORBS: sent directly from dynamic IP address [69.134.188.146 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 686 Lines: 21 Andi Kleen wrote: >>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. There will continue to be tons of embedded uniprocessor Linux use... It will take a while for Linux phones and watches to become multi-core. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/