Re: Enable SMP support

[Almudena Garcia]

But... where is this configuration file?

Do I need to recompile mach after enable the SMP option?

2018-06-08 21:27 GMT+02:00 James Clarke <jrtc27@jrtc27.com>:

On 8 Jun 2018, at 18:06, Joshua Branson <jbranso@fastmail.com> wrote:
>
> Almudena Garcia <liberamenso10000@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi all:
>>
>> Reading this post in Hurd FAQ, I read that Mach has SMP support, but It was disabled because the Linux device drivers glue code isn't thread-safe.
>>
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/faq/smp.html
>>
>> Then, I ask . Are there any form to enable this SMP support in GNU Mach? (At my own risk).
>>
>> I would like to test it.
>>
>> P.D.: It's only a curiosity, not an urgency
>
> That actually sounds like really fun!  haha.  I bet it would involve
> diving into the mach code...I believe that the Hurd currently uses
> drivers from linux via DDE.  A lot of that code was shoved into
> GNU/Mach.  You'd have to pull it out, or find the commandline option to
> not compile it in...but I don't know how to do it.

From gnumach's configfrag.ac:

> # Multiprocessor support is still broken.
> AH_TEMPLATE([MULTIPROCESSOR], [set things up for a uniprocessor])
> mach_ncpus=1
> AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([NCPUS], [$mach_ncpus], [number of CPUs])
> [if [ $mach_ncpus -gt 1 ]; then]
>   AC_DEFINE([MULTIPROCESSOR], [1], [set things up for a multiprocessor])
> [fi]

So enabling it is just a case of tweaking that constant or making it a
configurable option.

James