uclibc and smp

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Mon Sep 22 17:34:53 UTC 2008


On Friday 05 September 2008 16:45:55 Joe Taylor wrote:
> I'm trying to obtain a rough measure of uclibc's maturity on SMP systems. 
> I see some SMP hooks in the source code, but I cannot seem to find much
> information on uclibc-based projects running on SMP systems.

SMP is really a kernel thing, not a userspace thing.  (Userspace sees 
threading, but doesn't care if it's smp, UP scheduling, hyper-threading...)

Our _build_ process wasn't parallel safe in 0.9.29 (the build would break 
sometimes with "make -j 3"), but that seems to have been fixed in SVN.

Rob



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