Linux SMP HOWTO

David Mentré, David.Mentre@irisa.fr

1. Introduction

2. Questions related to any architectures

• 2.1 Kernel Side
• 2.2 User Side
• 2.3 SMP Programming

3. x86 architecture specific questions

• 3.1 Why it doesn't work on my machine?
• 3.2 Possible causes of crash
• 3.3 Motherboard specific information
• 3.4 Low cost SMP Linux box (dual Celeron box)

4. Sparc architecture specific questions

• 4.1 Which Sparc machines are supported ?
• 4.2 Specific problem related to Sparc SMP support
• 4.3 SMP specific limit with current kernel (2.2)

5. PowerPC architecture specific questions

• 5.1 Which PPC machines are supported ?
• 5.2 Specific problem related to PPC SMP support

6. Alpha architecture specific questions

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

7. Useful pointers

• 7.1 Various
• 7.2 Multithreaded programs and library
• 7.3 SMP specific patches
• 7.4 Parallelizing/Optimizing Compilers for 586/686 machines

8. Glossary

• 8.1 Definitions
• 8.2 Concepts

9. What's new ?

10. List of contributors