[Openswan dev] OCF in SMP kernel

David McCullough David_Mccullough at securecomputing.com
Mon Jun 2 19:07:11 EDT 2008


Jivin Paul Wouters lays it down ...
> On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Kabir Ahsan wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone tried OCF in SMP mode for 2.6 kernel without any issues
> > related to spinlocks?
> 
> The latest OCF patch addressed some spinlock issues, see the patch at:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=20080529040202.GA20425%40securecomputing.com

That might help,  unfortunately it really doesn't get a lot of testing on SMP.  

It has been used on SMP, and had fixes applied for SMP, but most of the core
use has that I work on has been single core embedded systems.

I will gladly take SMP patches though ;-)

Cheers,
Davidm

-- 
David McCullough,  david_mccullough at securecomputing.com,   Ph:+61 734352815
Secure Computing - SnapGear  http://www.uCdot.org   http://www.snapgear.com


More information about the Dev mailing list