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Linux SMP HOWTO
David Mentré,
David.Mentre@irisa.fr
v1.12.1, 25 october 2000
This HOWTO reviews main issues (and I hope solutions) related to SMP configuration under Linux.
1.
Licensing
2.
Introduction
3.
Questions related to any architectures
3.1 Kernel Side
3.2 User Side
3.3 SMP Programming
4.
x86 architecture specific questions
4.1 Why it doesn't work on my machine?
4.2 Possible causes of crash
4.3 Motherboard specific information
4.4 Low cost SMP Linux box (dual Celeron box)
5.
Sparc architecture specific questions
5.1 Which Sparc machines are supported ?
5.2 Specific problem related to Sparc SMP support
5.3 SMP specific limit with current kernel (2.2)
6.
PowerPC architecture specific questions
6.1 Which PPC machines are supported ?
6.2 Specific problem related to PPC SMP support
7.
Alpha architecture specific questions
7.1 Which Alpha machines are supported ?
7.2 Specific problem related to Alpha SMP support
8.
Useful pointers
8.1 Various
8.2 Multithreaded programs and library
8.3 SMP specific patches
8.4 Parallelizing/Optimizing Compilers for 586/686 machines
9.
Glossary
9.1 Definitions
9.2 Concepts
10.
What's new ?
11.
List of contributors
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