Re: [patch] SMP alternatives

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Gerd Knorr wrote:
> Patching in/out SMP-locking with more than one active CPU would be a 
> pretty silly idea in the first place ;)

No, doing this crap with CPU hotplug is a silly idea.  Patching on a 
real UP system, and then throwing out the tables, makes sense.  Keeping 
two sets of tables for a minimal performance improvement in a very rare 
configuration (CPU hotplug is the exception, not the rule) is just plain 
stupid.  You probably lose as much performance from the memory hogged up 
in the tables as you gain from it, and on every system where you have 
the tables at all you take the hit.

	-hpa
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