On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 7:00 AM, Madhu K <madhu.sk89@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Greg k-h, > > Thanks a lot for your response. > > I want to understand how SMP works and what should be the requirements to > enable SMP, This is to understand, whether is it possible to enable SMP on > different cores. Right now I don't have a machine with different cores. > > Thanks > Madhu > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 5:47 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 04:46:12PM +0530, Madhu K wrote: >> > Hi All, >> > >> > If i want to enable SMP, cores should be of same version( ex: both >> > core should ARM 7 ) or we could enable SMP on different version. >> >> Do you have a machine that has cores of different versions of a CPU? If >> so, what are they? >> >> thanks, >> >> greg k-h Madhu, SMP requires a single computer with multiple cores. If and when you buy a computer with multiple cores, I encourage you to buy one where all the cores are the same. BTW: in both Arm and Intel, the lowest end multi-core CPU PCs use a single socket solution, so you have absolutely no option of having different architectures on that single socket. Greg (not KH) _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
