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Improve the smp-support question wording for the modern era. Indicate that certain ARM cpus may have issues.

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This is based on information and wording from gavin.
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Eitan Adler 2013-05-19 01:02:30 +00:00
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</question> </question>
<answer> <answer>
<para>Symmetric multi-processor (SMP) systems are generally <para>&os; supports Symmetric multi-processor (SMP) on all
supported by &os;, although in some cases, BIOS or non-embedded platforms (e.g, i386, amd64/x86-64,
motherboard bugs may generate some problems.</para> ia64, sparc64, powerpc, powerpc64). SMP is also
supported in arm and MIPS kernels, although some CPUs
<para>&os; will take advantage of HyperThreading (HTT) may not support this. &os;'s SMP implementation uses
support on &intel; CPUs that support this feature. A kernel fine-grained locking, and performance scales nearly
with the <literal>options SMP</literal> option, enabled liniarly with number of CPUs.</para>
by default,
will automatically detect the additional logical
processors.</para>
<para>&man.smp.4; has more details.</para> <para>&man.smp.4; has more details.</para>
</answer> </answer>