[PATCH] Rename CONFIGURE_SMP_MAXIMUM_PROCESSORS

Chris Johns chrisj at rtems.org
Mon Feb 6 03:47:01 UTC 2017


On 04/02/2017 03:04, Gedare Bloom wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 7:40 AM, Sebastian Huber
> <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:
>> On 01/02/17 14:16, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>>
>>> Rename CONFIGURE_SMP_MAXIMUM_PROCESSORS to CONFIGURE_MAXIMUM_PROCESSORS
>>> since the SMP part is superfluous.
>>
>>
>> I still think its worth to rename this configuration option. I would like to
>> move it (CONFIGURE_MAXIMUM_PROCESSORS) to
>>
> I'm OK with it, since the MP variants are distinct. I do wonder about
> the use of MP with SMP (i.e. asymmetric/clustered multiprocessing),
> but that is a problem for another year.
>
> In my view, processors == cores, and CPU is only relevant to
> uniprocessor systems.
>

Excellent and thanks. It is great to have this clarified.

Chris


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