arla on Linux SMP

A.J.Martin A.J.Martin at qmw.ac.uk
Fri Aug 14 17:03:53 CEST 1998


On 14 Aug 1998, Magnus Ahltorp wrote:

> >      I have trivially added  -D__SMP__ to the xfs Makefile, and it 
> > appears to solved the problems I saw yesterday. 
> 
> Do you have a general solution as to when -D__SMP__ should be used and
> when it shouldn't? How do I know that the compilation is done for an
> SMP kernel?
> 

cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor | wc -l

should normally give the number of processors (assuming /proc is 
mounted). Maybe there is a better way?  

cheers,
Alex Martin






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