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Linux kernel 6.17 SMP becomes mandatory

debugging
Lead

Would this mean that in a few years time  STM32MP151, STM32MP231 and STM3MP251 wont be supported anymore by Linux when STLink kernel goes to 6.17 or beyond or this won't apply to non-Intel processors ?

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.17-Maybe-SMP-Uncond

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?h=sched/core&id=cac5cefbade90ff0bb0b393d301fa3b5234cf056

 

 

 

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Christophe Guibout
ST Employee

Hello @debugging,

 

Enabling SMP on uniprocessor is supported, but this involves an overhead which slightly decreases kernel performances:

"But for anyone running in a uniprocessor world, making SMP unconditional does lead to some slight overhead". Source : the link your shared.

So STM32MP151, STM32MP231 and STM3MP251 will still be supported in kernel-6.17.

 

Thanks for having highlighted this information.

 

BR,

Christophe

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