From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261453AbULXVZ2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:25:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261454AbULXVZ2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:25:28 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:38080 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261453AbULXVZZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:25:25 -0500 Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:25:13 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: "David S. Miller" Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: VM fixes [4/4] Message-ID: <20041224212513.GV771@holomorphy.com> References: <20041224174156.GE13747@dualathlon.random> <20041224100147.32ad4268.davem@davemloft.net> <20041224182219.GH13747@dualathlon.random> <20041224125504.4caa4270.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041224125504.4caa4270.davem@davemloft.net> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 19:22:19 +0100 Andrea Arcangeli wrote: >> If those old cpus really supported smp in linux, then fixing this bit is >> trivial, just change it to short. Do they support short at least? On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 12:55:04PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > No, they do not. The smallest atomic unit is one 32-bit word. > And yes there are SMP systems using these chips. Would systems described as ev56 by /proc/cpuinfo have such chips? -- wli