Re: SCHEDL_SMT forced on!

On 12/17/18, Jiri Kosina jikos@kernel.org wrote:

On Mon, 17 Dec 2018, Barry Kauler wrote:

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Thanks for the response. So I guess it comes down to basic philosophy:

"SMT is a distinct feature, separate from SMP, and I think that it is important to keep that distinction."

You guys have chosen to remove that distinction, and to remove the choice for many specialised, such as embedded, situations, where they would maybe want that choice.

They have that choice. SMT can be disabled on kernel cmdline, and in many cases also in BIOS.

Being forced to do it on the kernel commandline is not satisfactory. If it can be done there, why not also retain it as a configuration option?

Regards, Barry Kauler