Linux SMP HOWTO

David Mentré, David.Mentre@irisa.fr

1. Introduction

2. What's new ?

3. Questions related to any architectures

• 3.1 Kernel Side
• 3.2 User Side
• 3.3 SMP Programming

4. x86 architecture specific questions

• 4.1 Why it doesn't work on my machine?
• 4.2 Possible causes of crash
• 4.3 Motherboard specific information
• 4.4 Low cost SMP Linux box (dual Celeron box)

5. Sparc architecture specific questions

• 5.1 Which Sparc machines are supported ?
• 5.2 Specific problem related to Sparc SMP support
• 5.3 SMP specific limit with current kernel (2.2)

6. PowerPC architecture specific questions

• 6.1 Which PPC machines are supported ?
• 6.2 Specific problem related to PPC SMP support

7. Alpha architecture specific questions

• 7.1 Which Alpha machines are supported ?
• 7.2 Specific problem related to Alpha SMP support

8. Useful pointers

• 8.1 Various
• 8.2 Multithreaded programs and library
• 8.3 SMP specific patches
• 8.4 Parallelizing/Optimizing Compilers for 586/686 machines

9. Glossary

10. List of contributors