Re: CVS commit: [cherry-xenmp] src/sys/arch/xen

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 04:00:47PM +0300, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 12:56:33PM +0000, Cherry G. Mathew wrote:
> > Module Name:        src
> > Committed By:       cherry
> > Date:               Sun Jun 26 12:56:33 UTC 2011
> > 
> > Modified Files:
> >     src/sys/arch/xen/include [cherry-xenmp]: intr.h
> >     src/sys/arch/xen/xen [cherry-xenmp]: hypervisor.c
> > 
> > Log Message:
> > Unbreak uniprocessor build
> 
> I've asked this privately few times, but what -- if any -- is the rationale
> of #ifdef MULTIPROCESSOR in 2011 (for x86 MD, at least)?

This is Xen, not x86. This may go away some day, but not yet - let the
Xen MULTIPROCESSOR code stabilize first.

Also, you seem to assume that all x86 CPUs on today's market are muticore;
this is not true.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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